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April 06, 2021
For patients sent for an unplanned PCI, a strategy of maintaining oral anticoagulation is not associated with a higher risk of ischemic complications or bleeding when compared with a strategy of interrupting the direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) or vitamin K antagonist (VKA) a day or two before the procedure, a new observational analysis confirms.
Published in the April 12, 2021, issue of
JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, the study, drawing on the large SWEDEHEART registry, supports the current recommendations from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for uninterrupted oral anticoagulation (U-OAC) in patients with atrial fibrillation, venous thromboembolism, or a mechanical heart valve undergoing unplanned, nonemergent PCI, investigators say.