Ticagrelor with or without Aspirin in High-Risk Patients after PCI

Roxana Mehran1, Usman Baber1, Samin K Sharma1

  • 1From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital (R.M., U.B., J.Y.C., G.D., S.S.), Mount Sinai Health System (S.K.S.), Columbia University Medical Center (S.O.M.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (S.S.), and Montefiore Medical Center (G.W.), New York, and St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn (R.S.) - all in New York; Kansas City, Missouri (D.J.C.); the University of Florida-Shands, Jacksonville (D.J.A.); Clinica Mediterranea, Naples (C.B.), and Policlinico Umberto I University, Rome (G.S.) - both in Italy; the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London (T.C., S.P.), Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, and Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne (V.K.), and the West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow (K.O.) - all in the United Kingdom; the 2nd Department of Cardiology Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow (D.D.), and the Department of Invasive Cardiology, Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warsaw (R.G.) - both in Poland; Research and Innovation in Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Intensive Care, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network, Toronto (V.D.), and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON (S.R.M.) - both in Canada; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Hospital Clínico San Carlos and Complutense University, Madrid (J.E.); Sinai Hospital of Baltimore System, Baltimore (P.G.); Kerckhoff Clinic, Bad Nauheim (C.W.H.), Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Munich (A.K.), and Helios Amper-Klinikum, Dachau (B.W.) - all in Germany; the Carl and Edyth Lindner Center for Research and Education at the Christ Hospital, Cincinnati (T.H.); Wilhelminenhospital, Vienna (K.H.); Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, New Delhi, India (U.K.); Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel (R.K.); Duke University Medical Center-Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (M.K., E.M.O.); the University of Kentucky, Lexington (D.M.); Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude-Bernard, Paris (P.G.S.); Shenyang North Hospital, Shenyang, China (Y.H.); and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (C.M.G.).

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