Profile: sanofi-aventis is a pharmaceutical company providing medicines to treat patients with illnesses in several therapeutic areas like cardiovascular system, thrombosis, central nervous system, oncology, metabolic disorders and internal medicine. Our products include clexane®, plavix®, telfast®, aprovel®, eloxatin®, lantus® and taxotere®. Our product plavix® contains clopidogrel.Clopidogrel is indicated in adults for the prevention of atherothrombotic events, patient suffering from myocardial function, ischaemic stroke or established peripheral arterial disease.