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- Title
Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Coronary Stents Undergoing Elective Noncardiac Surgery: Continue, Stop, or Something in Between?
- Authors
Childers, Christopher P.; Maggard-Gibbons, Melinda; Shekelle, Paul G.
- Abstract
The article discusses the authors' views about the use of antiplatelet therapy in patients with coronary stent implants who decide to undergo noncardiac-related elective surgery procedures. According to the article, patients who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention with stent implantation have an increased risk of peri-operative major adverse cardiac events such as myocardial infarction. Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), bare metal stents, and drug-eluting stents are assessed.
- Subjects
PLATELET aggregation inhibitors; DRUG-eluting stents; DECISION making in elective surgery; MYOCARDIAL infarction risk factors; PERCUTANEOUS coronary intervention; SURGICAL complications; HEALTH of patients; POSTOPERATIVE period; THERAPEUTICS; CLINICAL trials; HEART diseases; HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL stents; ELECTIVE surgery
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2017, Vol 318, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.2017.7845