Patients who have a stent implanted to open a blocked coronary artery face dual risks of developing blood clots and of having excessive bleeding in the months following the procedure. While routine ...

Background: Dual antiplatelet therapy is the standard of care for acute coronary syndrome, but uncertainty exists regarding ...

For prolonged antithrombotic treatment after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), clopidogrel monotherapy was more ...

A deescalation strategy involving switching from ticagrelor to clopidogrel in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) ...

Figure 10 shows Baylor polar maps of stress and rest studies for a patient with myocardial infarction affecting all regions except the septal wall. It shows a large island of reversible ischemia in a ...

The differential effects of P2Y 12 inhibitor monotherapy compared with conventional DAPT in patients with chronic coronary ... a composite of all‐cause death, myocardial infarction, or ischemic stroke ...

This approach is consistent with clinical practice where elective PCI may be appropriate for post-myocardial infarction patients who have recurrent ... Of all the patients with an indication to ...

A cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a medical term that refers to types of strokes. In a CVA, blood flow to the brain is interrupted. Signs of a CVA may include weakness, numbness, confusion, or loss ...

MACEs were composed of all-cause death, myocardial infarction and stroke ... with a high risk of in-hospital major bleeding in patients with NSTE-ACS who received DAPT. An S-shaped association was ...

was associated with favorable outcomes in patients with stabilized acute myocardial infarction (AMI) having a body mass index (BMI) less than 28 but not in those with a higher BMI. This post hoc ...

compared one-month vs. three-month DAPT regimens followed by aspirin monotherapy. The study's primary endpoint was composite death or myocardial infarction (MI) at one year. For men and women, rates ...