{"id":1475,"date":"2010-03-19T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/%e2%80%9cdoc-i%e2%80%99m-so-confused-do-i-stop-or-continue-the-clopidogrel%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:17","slug":"%e2%80%9cdoc-i%e2%80%99m-so-confused-do-i-stop-or-continue-the-clopidogrel%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2010\/03\/19\/%e2%80%9cdoc-i%e2%80%99m-so-confused-do-i-stop-or-continue-the-clopidogrel%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDoc, I\u2019m so confused. Do I stop or continue the clopidogrel?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/NEJMoa1001266?query=TOC\">recent study <\/a>suggested that clopidogrel can be discontinued 12 months after drug-eluting stent placement.\u00a0What do I tell my patient who had a drug eluting stent placed a year ago?\u00a0 He\u2019s not the only one who\u2019s confused. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0concerned that\u00a0the study was underpowered and the duration of follow-up\u00a0too short to provide a firm conclusion about the appropriate duration of clopidogrel therapy. \u00a0I\u2019m not comfortable recommending my patients stop clopidogrel after 12 months.\u00a0 Are you? <\/p>\n<p>How would you explain your opinion to the patient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0recent study suggested that clopidogrel can be discontinued 12 months after drug-eluting stent placement.\u00a0What do I tell my patient who had a drug eluting stent placed a year ago?\u00a0 He\u2019s not the only one who\u2019s confused. I&#8217;m\u00a0concerned that\u00a0the study was underpowered and the duration of follow-up\u00a0too short to provide a firm conclusion about the appropriate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}