Open AccessPCI, Stents, Clopidogrel and Non‐cardiac Surgery
Author(s) -
Conti C. Richard
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical cardiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.263
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1932-8737
pISSN - 0160-9289
DOI - 10.1002/clc.20589
Subject(s) - medicine , clopidogrel , conventional pci , suspect , subject (documents) , cardiac surgery , general surgery , surgery , cardiology , aspirin , myocardial infarction , library science , political science , computer science , law
What follows in this discussion is partially abstracted from a wonderful ACCEL interview with Peter Berger by Freek W.A. Verheugt on the subject of stopping antiplatelet therapy prior to non‐cardiac surgery. 1 I suspect what Dr. Berger believes is representative of the opinion of many interventional cardiologists. Copyright © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.