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Figure 4 Response Variability to Clopidogrel
Presentation of platelet function data as a histogram of the absolute change in aggregation ( A) in response to 5 µmol/l adenosine diphosphate (ADP) stimulation at 2 h after treatment with 300-mg clopidogrel loading dose. The A is defined as baseline aggregation (%) minus the post-stent aggregation (%) and is divided into deciles. Nonresponsiveness or resistance is defined as A  10%. Nonresponsiveness is present in those patients below the solid arrow. Heightened post-treatment reactivity is present in those patients below the dashed arrow. The curve represents a normal distribution of data (Statistica software, Tulsa, Oklahoma). Adapted from Gurbel et al. (50), with permission.
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