Antithrombotic therapies in primary angioplasty: Rationale, results and future directions

Drugs

Volumn 68, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2325-2344

  De Luca, Giuseppe ^a   Marino, Paolo ^a  

^a MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Antithrombotics, therapeutic use

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; AR C109318XX; CANGRELOR; CLOPIDOGREL; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METOPROLOL; PEXELIZUMAB; PLACEBO; PRASUGREL; PRT 060128; RAPAMYCIN; RETEPLASE; STREPTOKINASE; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; TICAGRELOR; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY STENT; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART REINFARCTION; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PROGNOSIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 55149098971     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 00126667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0003495-200868160-00005     Document Type: Review

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