The impact of preinjury antiplatelet and anticoagulant pharmacotherapy on outcomes in elderly patients with hemorrhagic brain injury

Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 598-605

  Fortuna, Gerald R ^a   Mueller, Eric W ^b   James, Laura E ^a   Shutter, Lori A ^b   Butler, Karyn L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TICLOPIDINE; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 51449113638     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.06.009     Document Type: Article

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