A panel of experts at the CRT late-breaker session where these results were presented offered mixed reactions. While Jeffrey Popma, MD, director of interventional cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, called the results both “intriguing” and “provocative,” Ron Waksman, MD, associate director of the division of cardiology at the Medstar Health Institute, Washington, offered a note of caution, commenting that this application of ticagrelor “is off label, and then you would have to be concerned about the bleeding risk.”
However, all agreed that the optimal antithrombotic therapy for TAVI remains poorly defined and that randomized trials are needed to explore this issue.
This investigator-initiated study had no commercial sponsor. Dr. Jimenez Diaz reported no relevant financial relationships.
SOURCE: Jimenez Diaz VA. CRT 2018, Abstract LBT-10.