European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 16, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(7):740-741; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi157
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Raising the loading dose of clopidogrel: aiming at the proper target?
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Heart Institute, Medical Faculty, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, 13 Ifjúság u., Hungary
Heart Institute, Medical Faculty, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, 13 Ifjúság u., Hungary
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With great interest, we read the excellent article of Angiolillo et al.1 which attempted to characterize the effect of 600 mg loading dose (LD) clopidogrel in patients undergoing coronary stenting (CS). Supplementation of aspirin with thienopyridines resulted in reduction of acutesubacute thrombotic