title: Aspirin: from a historical perspective.
abstract: Aspirin is one of the oldest medicines. Due to its wide range usage in different fields of medicine, we aimed to present the history, effects and different uses of aspirin in this review. Furthermore, recent patents of novel pharmaceutical interventions in the field of acetylsalicylic acid, expanding treatment options are presented. Literature search was performed in order to reach data and present information about aspirin from a historical perspective. Since its first use as a pain killer, aspirin has found a broad range of use in general medicine, cardiovascular medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, gastroenterology, oncology with its different effects. Aspirin, a painkilling gift of history to mankind, with a history dating back to BC and various healing effects, promises to be of greater use in different fields of medicine with the light of recent studies, inspiring more research and gaining more popularity.
authors.affiliation: Anadolu Medical Center Hospital, Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Turkey. muratugurlucan@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Murat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ugurlucan
authors.forename: Ilker M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Caglar
authors.forename: Fatma N Turhan
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Caglar
authors.forename: Sedat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ziyade
authors.forename: Oguzhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Karatepe
authors.forename: Yahya
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yildiz
authors.forename: Ertugrul
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zencirci
authors.forename: Funda Gungor
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Ugurlucan
authors.forename: Ahmet H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Arslan
authors.forename: Semra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Korkmaz
authors.forename: Ugur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Filizcan
authors.forename: Sertac
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cicek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001241:Aspirin / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D001241:Aspirin