Antiplatelet drugs: What comes next?

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-26

  Kei, Anastazia A ^a   Florentin, Matilda ^a,b   Mikhailidis, Dimitri P ^b   Elisaf, Moses S ^a   Liberopoulos, Evangelos N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antiplatelets; cangrelor; elinogrel; PAR 1 inhibitors; prasugrel; thienopyridines; thromboxane inhibitors; ticagrelor

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXY 11ALPHA,9ALPHA EPOXYMETHANOPROSTA 5,13 DIENOIC ACID; 3A,4,4A,5,6,7,8,8A,9,9A DECAHYDRO N [4 [2 [5 (3 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 PYRIDYL]VINYL] 3 METHYL 1 OXO 3H BENZO[F]ISOBENZOFURAN 7 YL]CARBAMIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID 3 (NITROXYMETHYL)PHENYL ESTER; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CANGRELOR; CLOPIDOGREL; E 5555; ELINOGREL; FONDAPARINUX; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; OMEPRAZOLE; PANTOPRAZOLE; PLACEBO; PRASUGREL; STREPTOKINASE; TERUTROBAN; TICAGRELOR; TICLOPIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRADYCARDIA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MEDLINE; NEUTROPENIA; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT; STROKE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; MORTALITY; THROMBOSIS;

ANIMALS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78651398368     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029610385222     Document Type: Review

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