Endoscopy in the patient on antithrombotic therapy

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 432-441

  Abu Daya, Hussein ^a   Younan, Lara ^a   Sharara, Ala I ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

aspirin; bleeding; clopidogrel; colonoscopy; polypectomy; warfarin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; THIENOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BALLOON; BLEEDING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLONOSCOPY; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMOSTASIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STENT; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; UNITED STATES;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GASTROSTOMY; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 84865462752     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: 15317056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e328355e26f     Document Type: Review

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