"Little Risk When Doc Says Stop DAPT"
Dual antiplatelet therapy is once again a hot-line focus at the European Society of Cardiology - but this time the message is a reassuring one for both patients and physicians: doctor knows best.
Roxana Mehran, MD, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said that in a prospective, observational study of more than 5000 stent patients, physician-guided discontinuation of dual antiplatelet therapy was associated with a "substantially lower MACE [major adverse cardiac event] risk."
- Dr. Roxana Mehran, Professor, Medicine, Cardiology, Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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