Mohammad Alzoubi: One Month of Dual Antithrombotic Therapy After PCI Was Non-Inferior to 12 Months
Mohammad Alzoubi, Senior Neurologist at MOH, shared a post on LinkedIn about a recent article by Yohei Sotomi et al., published in adding:
“The OPTIMA-AF RCT (n=1,079) showed that 1-month dual antithrombotic therapy after PCI in AFib was non-inferior to 12 months for death or TE events and reduced major or clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding.”
Title: 1-month versus 12-month dual antithrombotic therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with atrial fibrillation (OPTIMA-AF): a multicentre, open-label, hybrid non-inferiority and superiority, randomised, controlled trial
Authors: Yohei Sotomi, Ken Kozuma, Yoshiharu Higuchi, Gaku Nakazawa, Yoshihiro Morino, Kenji Ando, Junya Ako, Kengo Tanabe, Takashi Muramatsu, Ken Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Ichibori, Takayuki Ishihara, Keiji Hirooka, Satoru Suwa, Takayuki Warisawa, Toru Naganuma, Atsushi Kikuchi, Ryu Shutta, Naotaka Okamoto, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Atsunori Okamura, Kosuke Kashiwabara, Shungo Hikoso, Yasushi Sakata
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