Safety and Efficacy of Prolonged Use of Unfractionated Heparin After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

The current guidelines for percutaneous coronary intervention do not address the prolonged postprocedural use of unfractionated heparin (UFH) to prevent acute occlusion. However, recently published small studies have yielded mixed results, leaving the question unanswered. Hence, we performed a meta-