European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(11):1471-1472; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn159
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How to react to high platelet reactivity?: reply
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We thank Dr Clappers and colleagues for their thoughtful comments and interest in our work.1 We strongly agree that the appropriate threshold that is chosen to define anti-platelet non-responsiveness by a particular platelet function test must not be arbitrary but determined through prospective, clinical studies of thrombotic events. Dr