Loading Dose

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
LD
Pronunciation
/ˈloʊdɪŋ doʊs/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Patients on long-term therapy with clopidogrel experience significant additional incremental inhibition of platelet aggregation when given a loading dose.
  2. A loading dose of strychnine.
  3. Efficiency and Safety Analysis of Loading Dose(LD) of Ibandronate for Metastatic Bone Pain Induced by Malignant Tumor
  4. A total of804 patients who had successful sirolimus-or paclitaxel-eluting stent implantation were assessed for post-treatment platelet reactivity after a loading dose of600 mg of clopidogrel.
  5. Patients randomly assigned to receive prasugrel received a60-mg loading dose before the procedure, followed by10 mg daily.

Other meanings of LD

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