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A 68-year-old man with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, and coronary artery disease (with a drug-eluting stent placed in the circumflex artery 2 years ago) presents with worsening angina over the past several months. Coronary catheterization reveals multi-vessel coronary artery disease with significant stenosis noted in the right coronary artery (RCA), left anterior descending artery (LAD), and circumflex artery (Cx). A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is scheduled, and you are the anesthesiologist. The patient tells you that he stopped taking clopidogrel 5 days ago, but took his aspirin and metoprolol that morning.
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Wang, C.J. (2017). When Should You Transfuse a Patient Who Is Bleeding After Cardiopulmonary Bypass?. In: Scher, C., Clebone, A., Miller, S., Roccaforte, J., Capan, L. (eds) You’re Wrong, I’m Right. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43169-7_21
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