Diabetic retinopathy should not be a contraindication to thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: Review of ocular hemorrhage incidence and location in the GUSTO-I trial

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1606-1610

  Mahaffey, Kenneth W ^a,f   Granger, Christopher B ^a   Toth, Cynthia A ^a   White, Harvey D ^b   Stebbins, Amanda L ^a   Barbash, Gabriel I ^c   Vahanian, Alec ^d   Topol, Eric J ^e   Califf, Robert M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GREEN LANE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOKINASE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0031541276     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00394-X     Document Type: Article

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