Thromboelastography As An Assessment Tool for Possible Clopidogrel and Aspirin Resistance
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2009-10-01
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Summary
TEG is an established technique to assess the quality of clot formation' used mainly in
surgery and obstetrics to determine possible bleeding diathesis. Recently it became to be
used in cardiology, where it can be a valuable tool to assess a response to antiplatelet
therapy and its association with the outcome. However, there is a few data about use of TEG
in STEMI patients undergoing PCI. Our study is designed to assess by TEG the platelet's
response to clopidogrel treatment during acute STEMI in patients undergoing primary PCI and
the correlation of this response with the long term outcome, and ability to dose adjustment
according to a specific measurement by TEG in order to prevent future MACE.