This week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) features an editorial by Dominick J. Angiolillo, M.D., Ph.D, Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology for the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville.
Angiolillo, medical director of the Cardiovascular Research Program on the Jacksonville campus, wrote the editorial Applying Platelet Function Testing in Clinical Practice: What are the Unmet Needs?
Angiolillo has already published in the JAMA, one of the most prestigious medical journals, earlier this year, and was now invited to provide his expert opinion in his Editorial in the Sept. 21, 2011 issue for JAMA.
Journals invite experts in a particular field to write editorials to provide a viewpoint on a clinical trial that is published in the same issue.
A study in this issue examined patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing angioplasty with coronary stenting. The study found that patients with high platelet reactivity determined using platelet function tests had a high risk for poor outcomes, including mortality, over the next two years. However, adjusting antiplatelet therapy with the approach used in the trial did not alter the outcomes of these patients.
Read the editorial http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/11/1260.full, and the full study http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/11/1215.full.
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