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Letter from Dominick J. Kelly to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Dominick J. Kelly, Doochary, County Donegal, to Hagan, offering sympathy over the death of the rector. Some comments on 'remote preparations' for a general election; finding the political situation 'more invigorating', and stating that the food outlook is disheartening in 'the sister island' this winter. Also commenting that Fr. Duggan laid down the sword and will teach at St. Eunan's soon
De-escalation of antiplatelet therapy in acute coronary syndromes: Why, how and when?
No full textThe synergistic blockade of the key platelet signaling pathways of cyclooxygenase-1 blockade and P2Y(12) signaling by combining aspirin plus a potent P2Y(12) inhibitor (prasugrel or ticagrelor), the so called dual antiplatelet treatment (DAPT), has represented the antithrombotic regimen of choice in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) for nearly a decade. Nevertheless, the use of such antiplatelet treatment regimen, while reduced the risk of thrombotic complications, it is inevitably associated with increased bleeding and this risk may outweigh the benefit of a reduction of ischemic events in specific subgroup of patients. In light of the adverse prognostic implications of a bleeding complication, there has been a great interest in the development of antiplatelet regimens aimed at reducing bleeding without any trade-off in ischemic events. The fact that the ischemic risk is highest in the early phase after an ACS while the risk of bleeding remains relatively stable over time has represented the rationale for the implementation of a more intense antithrombotic regimen early after an ACS, followed by a less intense antithrombotic regimen thereafter. This practice, known as a “de-escalation” strategy, represents one of the more promising approaches for personalization of antithrombotic therapy in ACS. In this review we discuss the rationale, appraise the evidence and provide practical recommendations on the use of a de-escalation strategy of antiplatelet therapy in patients with an ACS
Editorial: Navigating the complexity of bleeding and hypercoagulable disorders in patients with acute myocardial infarction
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Updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials on the safety and efficacy of different prophylactic anticoagulation dosing regimens in non-critically ill hospitalized patients with COVID-19
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Role of platelet function and genetic testing in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
No full textDual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) represents the standard of care for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Increasing evidence indicates that a "one-size-fits-all" approach with the use of a standard DAPT regimen for all patients undergoing PCI could lead to either suboptimal efficacy or prohibitively high bleeding in specific cohorts of patients. Moreover, the broad interindividual variability in response to P2Y12 inhibitors can impact outcomes and resource utilization. Among the strategies proposed to provide a more balanced trade-off between bleeding and ischemic events at a single patient level, a guided selection of P2Y12 inhibitors, by using platelet function or genetic testing, has shown promising results. In this review, we provide a focused summary of the rationale and evidence on the use of platelet function and genetic testing-guided antiplatelet therapy, and we explore the implications for their use in the modern setting of patients undergoing PCI
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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