TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: We present a rare case of perinephric hemorrhage causing hypertension & clinically significant bleeding after initiation antiplatelet therapy. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old male with history medulloblastoma, status post resection irradiation, presented slurred speech ataxia. Cerebral angiogram showed bilateral ver...

T he need for antithrombotic therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has been a troublesome issue for physicians for more than 20 years. With the advent of drug-eluting stents (DES), a minimum of 12 months of dual-antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has become the norm. However, evolving stent and drug technologies are now set to change this dogma. In this article, we focus on the periop...