Platelet function monitoring to adjust antiplatelet therapy in elderly patients stented for an acute coronary syndrome (ANTARCTIC): an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised controlled superiority trial

Publication date: Available online 28 August 2016 Source:The Lancet Author(s): Guillaume Cayla, Thomas Cuisset, Johanne Silvain, Florence Leclercq, Stephane Manzo-Silberman, Christophe Saint-Etienne, Nicolas Delarche, Anne Bellemain-Appaix, Grégoire Range, Rami El Mahmoud, Didier Carrié, Loic Belle, Geraud Souteyrand, Pierre Aubry, Pierre Sabouret, Xavier Halna du Fretay, Farzin Beygui, Jean-Louis Bonnet, Benoit Lattuca, Christophe Pouillot, Olivier Varenne, Ziad Boueri, Eric Van Belle, Patrick Henry, Pascal Motreff, Simon Elhadad, Joe-Elie Salem, Jérémie Abtan, Hélène Rousseau, Jean-Philippe Collet, Eric Vicaut, Gilles Montalescot Background Elderly patients are at high risk of ischaemic and bleeding events. Platelet function monitoring offers the possibility to individualise antiplatelet therapy to improve the therapeutic risk–benefit ratio. We aimed to assess the effect of platelet function monitoring with treatment adjustment in elderly patients stented for an acute coronary syndrome. Methods We did this multicentre, open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised controlled superiority study at 35 centres in France. Patients aged 75 years or older who had undergone coronary stenting for acute coronary syndrome were randomly assigned (1:1), via a central interactive voice-response system based on a computer-generated permuted-block randomisation schedule with randomly selected block sizes, to receive oral prasugrel 5 mg daily with dose ...
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