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Is It Safe To Stop Intake Of Plavix After Medicated Stinting?
I had a forth medicated stint placed in my heart three months ago, it is the medicated type. For a prostate biopsy the Urologist want's me to stop taking plavix and aspirin, but my Cardiologist says no more than 5 days. Is it safe at all to stop taking plavix at all after medicated stinting?
Fri, 21 Apr 2017
if you had a bare metal stent it is likely safe to stop the plavix and aspirin. ideally you biopsy should held be for 1 month after stenting, so you should be ok. i would follow the recommendations of your cardiologist...he should be able to provide safe recommendations for what to do with your aspirin and plavix around the time of surgery
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