My gut feeling is that ABC is attempting to stop the hemorrhaging and the rating decline,'' said David Miller, an analyst with Sander Morris Harris in Los Angeles. But my gut feeling is that I still think there is some kind of corruption in the game.
Current guidelines for patients on OAC undergoing PCI were drafted mainly on the basis of observational data and state that a minimum of 4 weeks of triple therapy after bare-metal stent (BMS) implantation and 1 to 12 months of therapy after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation should be considered 5; 6; 11 ; 12.
This issue is discussed in detail separately. (See Drug-eluting compared to bare metal intracoronary stents, section on 'DES compared to BMS' .). Stent thrombosis can occur acutely (within 24 hours), subacutely (within 30 days), or as late as one year (late) or more (very late) after stent placement.