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Abstract
Cardiologists need to recognize the potential need in their patients for future non-cardiac surgery and if non-cardiac surgery is known to be necessary within a year of PCI and stent insertion, BMS should be used in preference to DES.4 In patients who have had stents placed recently, elective non-cardiac surgery should be avoided until clopidogrel can be safely stopped. There are few data to guide the most appropriate management, and this is an area that urgently needs well-conducted clinical trials and peer-reviewed guidelines