{"id":38071,"date":"2013-08-28T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=voices&#038;p=38071"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:01:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:01:33","slug":"platelet-reactivity-testing-do-you-or-dont-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/08\/28\/platelet-reactivity-testing-do-you-or-dont-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Platelet Reactivity Testing: Do You or Don&#8217;t You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the multicenter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(13)61170-8\/abstract\">ADEPT DES<\/a> study, investigators used theVerifyNow point-of-care assay (Accumetrics, San Diego, CA, USA) to assess platelet reactivity (by P2Y<sub>12<\/sub> reaction units; PRU) in patients after successful PCI.<b> <\/b>The investigators found that high platelet reactivity in patients on clopidogrel was not an independent predictor of mortality, and that PRU did not provide utility beyond baseline risk profile in assessing the patients\u2019 propensity for death.<\/p>\nSorry, there are no polls available at the moment.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why or why not?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>If you do, how do you use that information?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will the ADEPT DES study affect your use of platelet reactivity testing?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of recent findings from the ADEPT DES study, Richard Lange and David Hillis want to know: Do you test PCI patients for platelet reactivity, and if so, why? React to reactivity in our latest poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[1934,1266,301,1223,565],"class_list":["post-38071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-adept-des","tag-p2y12-receptor-antagonists","tag-pci","tag-platelet-reactivity","tag-verifynow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071","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=38071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}