Dose Effect of Clopidogrel Reloading in Patients Already on 75-mg Maintenance Dose
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- 16 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Circulation
- Vol. 118 (12), 1225-1233
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.108.776757
Abstract
Background— Clopidogrel loading has mostly been studied in clopidogrel-naïve patients. Whether clopidogrel-treated patients readmitted for an acute coronary syndrome or percutaneous coronary intervention can benefit from a new load of clopidogrel and at what dose remain unknown. Our aim was to evaluate the impact of 3 different strategies of administration of a loading dose of 900 mg clopidogrel in patients already treated with a maintenance dose of 75 mg clopidogrel for at least 7 days on residual platelet aggregation. Methods and Results— Patients treated long term by clopidogrel 75 mg/d were assigned to receive a first loading dose of 300, 600, or 900 mg clopidogrel and 4 hours later a second loading dose of 600, 300, or 0 mg, respectively, to achieve a total loading dose of 900 mg in all patients. Platelet aggregation was evaluated at baseline, at 4 hours after the initial load (and before second load), and at 24 hours using light transmission aggregometry with 20 μmol ADP and the point-of-care assay VerifyNow P2Y 12 . The primary objective of the study was to evaluate the inhibition (relative change) of residual platelet aggregation (percentage of IRPA) between 600- and 900-mg first loading at 4 hours. IRPA at 24 hours also was evaluated as a secondary objective, as well as the rate of suboptimal response at 4 hours defined as IRPA P =0.0024). The difference in percentage IRPA at 4 hours was not significant between 300 and 600 mg but was significant between 600 and 900 mg and between 300 and 900 mg. Percentage IRPA assessed at 24 hours when all patients had received 900 mg did not differ between the 3 loading regimens. The rates of suboptimal response (IRPA P =0.02 for all). Conclusions— In patients treated long term with 75 mg clopidogrel, a new loading dose of 900 mg improves IRPA and reduces poor and/or slow response to clopidogrel significantly more than that obtained with 300 or 600 mg.Keywords
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