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New drug could help reduce heart attack risk for cardiac patients awaiting surgery

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:57:33 -0500

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New drug could help reduce heart attack risk for cardiac patients
awaiting surgery

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --- Heart patients who have stents that prop open
blocked arteries often face a dilemma when they need open heart
surgery: Continue taking life-saving blood thinners but risk severe
bleeding during surgery, or stop taking the medicines and risk a heart
attack.

http://news.ufl.edu/2012/01/19/bridge-trial/