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What Is the Best Antiplatelet Therapy in Primary Angioplasty at 12 Months?

Both prasugrel and ticagrelor showed superiority in terms of efficacy, reducing the number of major cardiovascular events...

Clinical and Economic Costs Compete in the De-Escalation of Antiplatelet Therapy

Patients undergoing primary angioplasty for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction have similar clinical outcomes at 1 year regardless...

Aspirin During Noncardiac Surgery: Only in Patients with Prior Angioplasty

A new analysis from the POISE-2 study suggests that aspirin should not be withheld prior to noncardiac...

Clopidogrel or Ticagrelor in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Treated with New-Generation DES: CHANGE DAPT

Courtesy of Dr. Pablo Baglioni. This is a prospective observational study with a 1-year follow-up analyzing 2062 patients...

Complex PCI: DAPT defining factor?

Courtesy of Dr. Alejandro Lakowsky, MTSAC. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) has recently published a...

When and How to Switch Dual Antiplatelet Therapies

Dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor is the treatment of choice for patients with...

Angioplasty Complexity May Define the Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

The DAPT study concluded that continued thienopyridine plus aspirin beyond a year after coronary angioplasty is associated...

DACAB: Ticagrelor and Aspirin Improve Vein Graft Patency

According to this Chinese study, dual antiplatelet therapy with ticagrelor and aspirin improves vein graft patency a year after surgery without increasing the...