Evaluation of the need to discontinue antiplatelet and anticoagulant medications before cataract surgery

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1115-1119

  Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Kanmon Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DEXAMETHASONE; DICLOFENAC; LEVOFLOXACIN; LIDOCAINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID HEMORRHAGE; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; CORNEA EDEMA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPHEMA; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; JAPAN; LENS IMPLANT; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS LOSS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; EYE HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; VISUAL ACUITY; WARFARIN;

EID: 77953655708     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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