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Those guidelines from the American College of Surgeons recommend discontinuing Plavix five to seven days before coronary artery bypass surgery, said Dr. Richard C. Becker, a professor of medicine in cardiology and hematology at Duke University, and co-author of a report in the Nov. 18 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The patients were followed for nearly seven months, on average, after stopping Plavix. During that time, 17% of patients who had only gotten drug treatment and 8% of those who had gotten stents died or had a heart attack. Most of those cases happened in the first 90 days after stopping Plavix.