“…Exclusion criteria were a known aspirin or clopidogrel intolerance (allergic reactions, gastrointestinal bleeding), a therapy with vitamin K antagonists (warfarin, phenprocoumon, acenocoumarol) or direct oral anticoagulants (dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixaban, edoxaban), a treatment with ticlopidine, dipyridamole or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, a family or personal history of bleeding disorders, malignant paraproteinemias, myeloproliferative disorders or heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, severe hepatic failure, acute and chronic inflammatory diseases, known qualitative defects in thrombocyte function, a major surgical procedure within one week before enrolment, a platelet count <100,000 or >450,000/µL and a hematocrit <30% as previously described [27,28].…”