Drug-eluting stents in a patient with favism: is the aspirin administration safe?

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We describe the case of a 64-year-old patient with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency who was referred to our hospital because of an acute inferior myocardial infarction.Given the possible risk of acute haemolytic anaemia, aspirin was not given in the acute phase, and the patient was successfully treated by balloon angioplasty of the right coronary artery.After functional and genetic testing showing the...

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