The strategy widely followed in the Netherlands is to provide aggressive in-hospital therapy with clopidogrel, aspirin, a high-dose statin, and enoxaparin. Patients with recurrent ischemia despite medical management go to catheterization, explained Dr. Verheugt, professor and chairman of the department of cardiology at Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
The beneficial results for men with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome do not necessarily apply to women, Dr. Eva Swahn said. Bruce Jancin/Elsevier Global Medical News