Population
2 patients with sirolimus-eluting stents who underwent noncardiac surgery and had aspirin stopped prior to…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
4 and 21 months
Authors
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Aspirin interruption for noncardiac surgery warrants caution in sirolimus-eluting stent patients; hypothesis-generating for late thrombosis risk.
Premature cessation of aspirin for noncardiac surgery in patients with sirolimus-eluting stents can precipitate fatal late stent thrombosis.
Nasser et al. (2005) studied this question.
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