The Incidence of Non-Cardiac Surgery in Patients Treated With Drug-Eluting Stents According to Age.

CONCLUSIONS: Non-cardiac surgery with requests for cessation of dual-antiplatelet treatment was frequently performed in patients ≥62 years old who were treated with DES implantation in a real-world clinical practice.
PMID: 30700625 [PubMed - in process]

Source: The Journal of Invasive Cardiology - February 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: J Invasive Cardiol Source Type: research