An NSTEMI patient is stable, has no separate anticoagulation indication and will undergo coronary angiography within hours. Which anticoagulant is app...

Question

An NSTEMI patient is stable, has no separate anticoagulation indication and will undergo coronary angiography within hours. Which anticoagulant is appropriate for the immediate invasive strategy?

Accepted Answer

Unfractionated heparin in the catheter-laboratory pathway

Answer

Fondaparinux followed by no procedural anticoagulant

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Therapeutic warfarin before angiography

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Apixaban before coronary anatomy is known

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No anticoagulant because aspirin has been given

NSTEMI — MRCP Part 1 MCQ

An NSTEMI patient is stable, has no separate anticoagulation indication and will undergo coronary angiography within hours. Which anticoagulant is appropriate for the immediate invasive strategy?