Anticoagulant properties, clinical efficacy and safety of efegatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor, in patients with unstable angina

European Heart Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 1101-1111

  Klootwijk, P ^a   Lenderink, T ^b   Meij, S ^a   Boersma, H ^a   Melkert, R ^b   Umans, V A W ^c   Stibbe, J ^a   Muller E J ^d   Poortermans, K J ^e   Deckers, J W ^a   Simoons, M L ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CARDIALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^c Medical Centre Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

^e MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anti thrombin; ECG ischaemia monitoring; Efegatran; Unstable angina

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; EFEGATRAN; HEPARIN; THROMBIN; THROMBIN INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; DEVICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THROMBIN TIME; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTITHROMBINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033179314     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1999.1477     Document Type: Article

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