A case of in-stent thrombosis in a patient with drug eluting stents during perioperative management with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors.

The management of patients with drug eluting stents (DES) who require early surgical intervention prior to the completion of antiplatelet therapy is challenging. Available literature suggests that bridging these high risk patients with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (g2b3a) inhibitors could be efficacious in preventing stent thrombosis (Ben Morrison et al., Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 2012;79;575-582). However, this still remains to be proven in larger prospective studies. We report a case of stent thrombosis in a patient with DES planned for neurosurgery while on bridging g2b3a inhibitors therapy in the perioperative period.