Reduced Antithrombotic Strategy for High Bleeding Risk Patients With Myocardial Infarction

Summary

Rationale: Heart attacks are a major cause of death and result from coronary blood clots that require acute coronary intervention and antithrombotic drugs to restore blood flow and prevent new heart attacks. Over time, more potent antithrombotic drugs have been introduced like prasugrel and ticagrelor. These drugs have replaced the older drug, clopidogrel, as approximately 30% of patients are low-responders to clopidogrel for genetic reasons. However, the newer drugs introduce a significant risk of serious bleeding. Aim: The aim of this trial is to assess a reduced antithrombotic strategy for high bleeding risk patients with heart attacks to reduce bleeding safely. Hypothesis: Significantly reduced bleeding with a similar preventive effect are expected. Design: The Dan-DAPT trial include high bleeding risk patients with heart attacks from Danish hospitals (Rigshospitalet, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg, Roskilde, and Gentofte hospital) and randomize them to standard-of-care or shorter and individualized antithrombotic therapy based on responsiveness to clopidogrel after genetic testing.

Timeline

Start

2022-06-17

Primary completion

2028-12

Completion

2028-12

Publications

• Background Valgimigli M, Bueno H, Byrne RA, Collet JP, Costa F, Jeppsson A, Juni P, Kastrati A, Kolh P, Mauri L, Montalescot G, Neumann FJ, Petricevic M, Roffi M, Steg PG, Windecker S, Zamorano JL, Levine GN; ESC Scientific Document Group. 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Jan 1;53(1):34-78. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezx334. No abstract available.
• Background Collet JP, Thiele H, Barbato E, Barthelemy O, Bauersachs J, Bhatt DL, Dendale P, Dorobantu M, Edvardsen T, Folliguet T, Gale CP, Gilard M, Jobs A, Juni P, Lambrinou E, Lewis BS, Mehilli J, Meliga E, Merkely B, Mueller C, Roffi M, Rutten FH, Sibbing D, Siontis GCM; ESC Scientific Document Group. 2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation. Eur Heart J. 2021 Apr 7;42(14):1289-1367. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa575. No abstract available.
• Background Costa F, van Klaveren D, James S, Heg D, Raber L, Feres F, Pilgrim T, Hong MK, Kim HS, Colombo A, Steg PG, Zanchin T, Palmerini T, Wallentin L, Bhatt DL, Stone GW, Windecker S, Steyerberg EW, Valgimigli M; PRECISE-DAPT Study Investigators. Derivation and validation of the predicting bleeding complications in patients undergoing stent implantation and subsequent dual antiplatelet therapy (PRECISE-DAPT) score: a pooled analysis of individual-patient datasets from clinical trials. Lancet. 2017 Mar 11;389(10073):1025-1034. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30397-5.
• Background Claassens DMF, Vos GJA, Bergmeijer TO, Hermanides RS, van 't Hof AWJ, van der Harst P, Barbato E, Morisco C, Tjon Joe Gin RM, Asselbergs FW, Mosterd A, Herrman JR, Dewilde WJM, Janssen PWA, Kelder JC, Postma MJ, de Boer A, Boersma C, Deneer VHM, Ten Berg JM. A Genotype-Guided Strategy for Oral P2Y12 Inhibitors in Primary PCI. N Engl J Med. 2019 Oct 24;381(17):1621-1631. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1907096. Epub 2019 Sep 3.
• Background Jacobsen MR, Engstrom T, Torp-Pedersen C, Gislason G, Glinge C, Butt JH, Fosbol EL, Holmvang L, Pedersen F, Kober L, Jabbari R, Sorensen R. Clopidogrel, prasugrel, and ticagrelor for all-comers with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Int J Cardiol. 2021 Nov 1;342:15-22. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.07.047. Epub 2021 Jul 24.
• Jacobsen MR, Jabbari R, Grove EL, Maeng M, Veien K, Hougaard M, Freeman P, Kelbaek H, Charlot MG, Engstrom T, Sorensen R. Genotype-guided de-escalation and abbreviation of dual antiplatelet therapy in patients with myocardial infarction and high bleeding risk: Design and rationale of the investigator-initiated, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial, DAN-DAPT. Am Heart J. 2025 Jul;285:74-81. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2025.02.020. Epub 2025 Feb 26.

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