Thrombelastographic haemostatic status and antiplatelet therapy after coronary artery bypass surgery (TEG-CABG trial): assessing and monitoring the antithrombotic effect of clopidogrel and aspirin versus aspirin alone in hypercoagulable patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rafiq, Sulman ^a   Johansson, Pär I ^a   Zacho, Mette ^a   Stissing, Trine ^a   Kofoed, Klaus ^a   Lilleør, Nikolaj B ^a   Steinbrüchel, Daniel A ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antiplatelet; Aspirin; CABG; Clopidogrel; Coronary artery bypass; Graft patency; Multiplate aggregometry; TEG; Thrombelastography; Thromboembolic

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; FONDAPARINUX;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; IMPEDANCE AGGREGOMETRY; LABORATORY TEST; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPEN STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION INHIBITION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VEIN GRAFT DISEASE;

ASPIRIN; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOPHILIA; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 84869439940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-48     Document Type: Article

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