My gut feeling is that ABC is attempting to stop the hemorrhaging and the rating decline,'' said David Miller, an analyst with Sander Morris Harris in Los Angeles. But my gut feeling is that I still think there is some kind of corruption in the game.
Current guidelines for patients on OAC undergoing PCI were drafted mainly on the basis of observational data and state that a minimum of 4 weeks of triple therapy after bare-metal stent (BMS) implantation and 1 to 12 months of therapy after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation should be considered 5; 6; 11 ; 12.
Stopping dual antiplatelet therapy to allow major surgery during the first six weeks after angioplasty and stenting (bare-metal or drug-eluting) leads to a cardiovascular mortality of up to 71 percent, whereas it is no more than 5 percent when the treatment is maintained perioperatively 25â28 (Table 218,19,24â29).