Following completion of antiplatelet monotherapy (i.e. Plavix) plus oral anticoagulation in patients with Afib post-PCI, would you favor continuing antiplatelet therapy + OAC, switching from Plavix to aspirin and continuing OAC, or stopping antiplatelet therapy and continuing OAC?

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My practice has always been to continue ASA in addition to anticoagulation but I'm starting to change this practice and remove antiplatelet therapy and continue OAC alone, especially in higher bleeding risk patients. There have been a couple of studies (AFIRE and OAC-ALONE) that would seem to suppor...

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To avoid confusion with different styles within our system, we have adopted a standard practice in our lab to use triple therapy for 1 week. Then after 1 week, we drop ASA. We tend to prefer ASA, clopidogrel + OAC. But if they could not take clopidogrel (for any reason) then we still use the same pr...

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Following completion of antiplatelet monotherapy (i.e. Plavix) plus oral anticoagulation in patients with Afib post-PCI, would you favor continuing antiplatelet therapy + OAC, switching from Plavix to aspirin and continuing OAC, or stopping antiplatelet therapy and continuing OAC?

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