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The CIAO (Coronary Interventions Antiplatelet-based Only) Study

A Randomized Study Comparing Standard Anticoagulation Regimen to Absence of Anticoagulation for Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Eugenio Stabile, MD, PhD, FESC, FAHA^_*,_*, Wail Nammas, MD^_*, Luigi Salemme, MD^_*, Giovanni Sorropago, MD^_*, Angelo Cioppa, MD^_*, Tullio Tesorio, MD^_*, Vittorio Ambrosini, MD^_*, Esther Campopiano, MD^_*, Gregory Popusoi, MD^_*, Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai, MD and Paolo Rubino, MD^_*

^_* Laboratory of Invasive Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, Clinica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Italy
Interventional Cardiology, Division of Cardiology, S. Giovanni Battista-Molinette Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

View larger version (29K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 Post-Procedural Myocardial Damage Creatine kinase-myocardial band (CK-MB) release after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients receiving standard anticoagulation therapy (heparin; purple bars) and in patients receiving no anticoagulation therapy (placebo; hatched bars) (p = 0.034).