The Benefits of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Stroke Prevention

For stroke patients, our long-term solution is a single therapy, antiplatelet or anti-quagulation. It would be very rare for there to be a concrete indication for long-term dual antiplatelet therapy. Possible exceptions to that might be somebody who has a certain type of stent, for example, a carotid or a coronary stent that requires it longer-term. There are trials that have come out recently, in particular point and chance, which have demonstrated the benefit for a short period of dual antiplatele therapy.