Single Agent Bivalirudin Better for Acute Coronary Syndromes

gregg stone Single Agent Bivalirudin Better for Acute Coronary Syndromes
Gregg Stone, Columbia University Medical Center, New York
American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session March 11-14, 2006, Atlanta
A superiority for the anti-clotting drug bivalirudin for treating patients with acute coronary syndromes was detected when this was used as monotherapy, but not when this direct thrombin inhibitor was combined with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition. Thus found the ACUITY trial reported to the ACC’s Atlanta meeting by Gregg Stone of Columbia University. He told Audio Medica the bottom line finding from the study.

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