Michele Millesimo, Edoardo Elia, Giorgio Marengo, Ovidio De Filippo, Sergio Raposeiras-Roubin, Wojciech Wańha, Emad Abu-Assi, Tim Kinnaird, Albert Ariza-Solé, Christoph Liebetrau, Sergio Manzano-Fernández, Mario Iannaccone, Jose Paulo Simao Henriques, Christian Templin, Stephen B Wilton, Lazar Velicki, Ioanna Xanthopoulou, Luis Correia, Enrico Cerrato, Andrea Rognoni, Iván Nuñez-Gil, Xiantao Song, Tetsuma Kawaji, Giorgio Quadri, Zenon Huczek, Rafael Cobas Paz, José Ramón González Juanatey, Shao-Ping Nie, Masa-Aki Kawashiri, Alberto Dominguez-Rodriguez, Federico Conrotto, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari
BACKGROUND: Patients with previous acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are at high risk of recurrent adverse cardiovascular events. Recently, prolonged dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) and oral anticoagulation therapy (OAT) have been shown to reduce recurrent ischemic events to the expense of an increase in bleeding events. The number of patients potentially eligible for these therapies in real life remains to be determined. METHODS: Among ACS patients from five registries and one randomized controlled trial, we assessed the proportion of patients eligible for the PEGASUS strategy only and the proportion of patients eligible for the COMPASS strategy only, and set out the proportion of patients with an overlap between the strategies...
October 31, 2022: American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs: Drugs, Devices, and Other Interventions