Therapy insight: Approaching endoscopy in anticoagulated patients

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-52

  Makar, George A ^a   Ginsberg, Gregory G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Antiplatelet agent; Colonoscopy; Endoscopy; Thromboprophylaxis

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DALTEPARIN; DESMOPRESSIN; DIPYRIDAMOLE; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; ETHANOLAMINE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 30844446736     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0387     Document Type: Review

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