Optimal use of platelet glycoprotein IIbIIIa receptor antagonists in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions

Drugs

Volumn 71, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2009-2030

  Starnes, H Benjamin ^a   Patel, Ankit A ^a   Stouffer, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abciximab; Acute coronary syndromes; Angioplasty; Aspirin; Bivalirudin; Clopidogrel; Dipyridamole; Eptifibatide; Fradafiban; GPIIb IIIa antagonists; Lamifiban; Low molecular weight heparins; Orbofiban; Prasugrel; Sibrafiban; Ticlopidine; Tirofiban; Xemilofiban; YM 337.

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; EPTIFIBATIDE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FRADAFIBAN; HEPARIN; HIRULOG; LAMIFIBAN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; ORBOFIBAN; PLACEBO; RETEPLASE; SIBRAFIBAN; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; TIROFIBAN; TROPONIN C; XEMILOFIBAN; YM 337;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG USE; DYSPNEA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIIB-IIIA COMPLEX;

MURINAE;

EID: 80053933453     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11595010-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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