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Editorial
. 2025 Dec;5(12):1602-1604.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2025.09.017.

Bleeding Without Bleeding?: Interpreting Hemoglobin Declines in PCI and ACS

Moa Simonsson  1 , Gustaf Edgren  2
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Editorial

Bleeding Without Bleeding?: Interpreting Hemoglobin Declines in PCI and ACS

Moa Simonsson et al. JACC Asia. 2025 Dec.
No abstract available

Keywords: bleeding complication; hemoglobin drop; major adverse cardiovascular events; percutaneous coronary intervention.

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Conflict of interest statement

Funding Support and Author Disclosures Dr Simonsson has received grants from the Swedish Research Council Dnr: 2024-00614, the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation Dnr: 20230374 and Dnr: 20230628, and from ALF Region Stockholm Dnr: 5.1.1-2024-069590; and has received institutional speaker and advisory board fees from AstraZeneca, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, and NovoNordisk. Dr Edgren has received grants from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101171648.

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