Current practice in managing patients on anticoagulants and/or antiplatelet agents around the time of gastrointestinal endoscopy - A nation-wide survey in Germany

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1289-1293

  Mosler, P ^a   Mergener, K ^a,b   Denzer, U ^a   Kiesslich, R ^a   Galle, P R ^a   Kanzler, S ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Digestive Health Specialists   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Antiplatelet therapy; ASA; Gastrointestinal endoscopy; Guidelines; Marcumar; Questionnaire; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; COUMARIN ANTICOAGULANT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHENPROCOUMON;

ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERMANY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTHROMBIN TIME; QUESTIONNAIRE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GERMANY; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK;

EID: 10644263290     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-813586     Document Type: Article

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