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Title: | Demystifying the Contemporary Role of 12-Month Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Acute Coronary Syndrome | Authors: | Valgimigli, Marco Landi, Antonio Angiolillo, Dominick J. Baber, Usman Bhatt, Deepak L. Bonaca, Marc P. Capodanno, Davide Cohen, David J. Gibson, C. Michael James, Stefan Kimura, Takeshi Lopes, Renato D. Mehta, Shamir R. Montalescot, Gilles Sibbing, Dirk Steg, P. Gabriel Stone, Gregg W. Storey, Robert F. VRANCKX, Pascal Windecker, Stephan Mehran, Roxana |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Publisher: | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Source: | Circulation, 150 (4) , p. 317 -335 | Abstract: | For almost two decades, 12-month dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) has been the only class I recommendation on DAPT in American and European guidelines, which has resulted in 12-month durations of DAPT therapy being the most frequently implemented in ACS patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) across the globe. Twelve-month DAPT was initially grounded in the results of the CURE (Clopidogrel in Unstable Angina to Prevent Recurrent Events) trial, which, by design, studied DAPT versus no DAPT rather than the optimal DAPT duration. The average DAPT duration in this study was 9 months, not 12 months. Subsequent ACS studies, which were not designed to assess DAPT duration, rather its composition (aspirin with prasugrel or ticagrelor compared with clopidogrel) were further interpreted as supportive evidence for 12-month DAPT duration. In these studies, the median DAPT duration was 9 or 15 months for ticagrelor and prasugrel, respectively. Several subsequent studies questioned the 12-month regimen and suggested that DAPT duration should either be fewer than 12 months in patients at high bleeding risk or more than 12 months in patients at high ischemic risk who can safely tolerate the treatment. Bleeding, rather than ischemic risk assessment, has emerged as a treatment modifier for maximizing the net clinical benefit of DAPT, due to excessive bleeding and no clear benefit of prolonged treatment regimens in high bleeding risk patients. Multiple DAPT de-escalation treatment strategies, including switching from prasugrel or ticagrelor to clopidogrel, reducing the dose of prasugrel or ticagrelor, and shortening DAPT duration while maintaining monotherapy with ticagrelor, have been consistently shown to reduce bleeding without increasing fatal or nonfatal cardiovascular or cerebral ischemic risks compared with 12-month DAPT. However, 12-month DAPT remains the only class-I DAPT recommendation for patients with ACS despite the lack of prospectively established evidence, leading to unnecessary and potentially harmful overtreatment in many patients. It is time for clinical practice and guideline recommendations to be updated to reflect the totality of the evidence regarding the optimal DAPT duration in ACS. | Notes: | Valgimigli, M (corresponding author), Ente Osped Cantonale, Cardioctr Ticino Inst, Via Tesserete 48, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland. marco.valgimigli@eoc.ch; dominick.angiolillo@jax.ufl.edu; Usman-Baber@ouhsc.edu; Deepak.Bhatt@mountsinai.org; marc.bonaca@cpcmed.org; dcapodanno@unict.it; dcohen@crf.org; charlesmichaelgibson@gmail.com; stefan.james@ucr.uu.se; taketaka@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp; renato.lopes@duke.edu; gilles.montalescot@aphp.fr; dirk@sibbing.net; gregg.stone@mountsinai.org; r.f.storey@sheffield.ac.uk; pascal.vranckx@iccuhasselt.be; Stephan.Windecker@insel.ch; roxana.mehran@mountsinai.org |
Keywords: | acute coronary syndrome;antithrombotic therapy;coronary artery disease;dual antiplatelet therapy;percutaneous coronary intervention | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/43705 | ISSN: | 0009-7322 | e-ISSN: | 1524-4539 | DOI: | 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.069012 | ISI #: | 001273906900001 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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