New antithrombotic agents: Are they needed and what can they offer to patients with a non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1695-1702

  Van De Werf, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Antiplatelet agents; Aspirin; Clopidogrel; Non ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes; Thrombin

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; APIXABAN; ARGATROBAN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; CANGRELOR; CLOPIDOGREL; DABIGATRAN; DU 176B; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; N [2 [4 (1 METHYL 4 PIPERIDINYL) 1 PIPERAZINYL] 2 OXO 1 PHENYLETHYL] 1H INDOLE 6 CARBOXAMIDE; PRASUGREL; PURINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RIVAROXABAN; SCH 530348; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; TICAGRELOR; TICLOPIDINE; TIROFIBAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; XIMELAGATRAN; YM 150;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY STENT; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE BLEEDING; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NON ST SEGMENT ELAVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; STENT THROMBOSIS; TARGET VESSEL REVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOGENESIS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANTICOAGULANTS; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 67651171598     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp230     Document Type: Review

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