Effect of prasugrel versus clopidogrel on outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention without stent implantation: A TRial to assess Improvement in Therapeutic Outcomes by optimizing platelet inhibitioN with prasugrel (TRITON)-Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) 38 Substudy

American Heart Journal

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Pride, Yuri B ^a   Wiviott, Stephen D ^b   Buros, Jacqueline L ^c   Zorkun, Cafer ^c   Tariq, M Umer ^c   Antman, Elliott M ^b   Braunwald, Eugene ^b   Gibson, C Michael ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PRASUGREL;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; STROKE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIPERAZINES; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; THIOPHENES; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 68949183521     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.06.021     Document Type: Article

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