Optimizing Clopidogrel Therapy Before Stent Implantation: Should Clinical Setting Be Taken Into Account?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1349-

  Aradi, Dániel ^a   Vorobcsuk, András ^a   Komócsi, András ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

CORONARY STENT; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; LOADING DRUG DOSE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TICLOPIDINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53049104837     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.05.063     Document Type: Letter

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