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Do you generally switch aspirin to another antiplatelet agent if a patient has a non-embolic ischemic stroke and isn't a candidate for DAPT?
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Neurology · Vanderbilt University Medical Center
I do tend to switch, mainly to impress the patient that I am trying hard to prevent another stroke, and not because there is clear evidence of one antiplatelet over another. Clopidogrel or ticagrelor would be candidates, or I might add cilostazol to aspirin, as this combination has little bleeding r...