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European Heart Journal 2008 29(4):429-431; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm624
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors—end of an era?

Marco Roffi1,* and Debabrata Mukherjee2

1 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
2 Gill Heart Institute and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +41 22 37 27 208, Fax: +41 22 37 27 229, Email: marco.roffi@usz.ch

This editorial refers to ‘One-year clinical outcomes with abciximab vs. placebo in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention after pre-treatment with clopidrogel: results of the ISAR-REACT-2 randomized trial’ by G. Ndrepepa et al.,{dagger} on page 455

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The second Intracoronary Stenting and Antithrombotic Regimen: Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (ISAR-REACT-2) study randomized 2022 high-risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to receive abciximab or placebo in addition to aspirin and clopidogrel 600 mg loading dose administered at least 2 h prior to the procedure. All patients received periprocedural unfractionated heparin. The incidence of the primary end-point of the study—the composite of death, myocardial infarction (MI), or urgent target vessel revascularization (TVR) at 30 days—was significantly reduced by 25% in the abciximab group.1 No difference was observed in terms of major or minor bleeding events between treatment assignments. In the present issue of the journal, Ndrepepa et al. have demonstrated . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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