Population
22 patients with the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
48 hours
Authors
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Persistent platelet activation post-MI may signal ongoing thrombotic risk; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Predominantly large platelets continue to circulate in an activated state after myocardial infarction, providing direct evidence of increased in vivo thrombotic potential.
Schultheiß et al. (1994) studied this question.
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