Endoscopic procedures in patients under clopidogrel/dual antiplatelet therapy: To do or not to do?

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-36

  Samie, Ahmed Abdel ^a   Theilmann, Lorenz ^a  

^a Pforzheim Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clopidogrel; Dual antiplatelet therapy; Endoscopic procedures

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; TICLOPIDINE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLONOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; POLYP; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SAFETY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; INTESTINAL POLYPS;

DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 84875434883     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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