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Guidelines recommend delaying coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for 5 days after discontinuing clopidogrel. However, platelet function may recover quicker in certain individuals.
Herein the authors report a case of a patient with APS undergoing PTE that highlights several limitations of the available coagulation monitoring strategies. The patient provided written consent for publication of the details of the case.
Known CVD risk factors associate most strongly with incident CABG. However, CABG is associated with increased risk of several, somewhat unexpected, non-CVD traits. More detailed study of these links is warranted to establish potential causality and pathogenesis.