REpetitive Assessement of Thromboembolic and Bleeding SCOREs in Patients Treated With Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

Patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) require dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT). Preliminary assessment of the PRECISE-DAPT score is mandatory in order to assess the risk of bleeding while on DAPT. The score takes into consideration age, creatinine clearance, haemoglobin, white-blood-cell count and previous spontaneous bleeding. One should consider, however, that some of the variables included in the PRECISE-DAPT score might change with time. As a consequence, the PRECISE-DAPT score should not be considered a static score as it might vary after the initial computation. It remains unknown, however, if the delta PRECISE-SCORE, reflecting the change in score between baseline and follow-up, might predict more reliably the long-term bleeding risk of PCI patients.