Acute coronary syndrome and its antithrombotic treatment: Focus on aspirin and clopidogrel resistance

Current Vascular Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-208

  Bonvini, Robert F ^a,b   Reny, Jean Luc ^c,d   Mach, François ^b   Zeller, Thomas ^a   Fontana, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c Centre Hospitalier Beziers   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Aspirin; Clopidogrel; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OMEPRAZOLE; PRASUGREL; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; THROMBOXANE A2; THROMBOXANE B2; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEUTROPENIA; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; THROMBOSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ASPIRIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG RESISTANCE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RISK FACTORS; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 65949099539     PISSN: 15701611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157016109787455662     Document Type: Review

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