High on-treatment platelet reactivity and P2Y12 antagonists in clinical trials

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 834-845

  Trenk, Dietmar ^a   Kristensen, Steen Dalby ^b   Hochholzer, Willibald ^a   Neumann, Franz Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clopidogrel; P2Y12 antagonists; Platelet function

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CELECOXIB; COLLAGEN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRONE; FLUFENAMIC ACID; GALLIC ACID; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETOPROFEN; LUMIRACOXIB; MEFENAMIC ACID; NAPROXEN; NIMESULIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PADGEM PROTEIN; PARACETAMOL; PHENAZONE; PIROXICAM; PROPYPHENAZONE; PROSTAGLANDIN ENDOPEROXIDE; PROSTAGLANDIN H2; SULINDAC; THROMBOXANE A2; THROMBOXANE SYNTHASE; TIAPROFENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EVENING DOSAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORNING DOSAGE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATELET REACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PURINERGIC P2Y RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; RECEPTORS, PURINERGIC P2Y12; RISK ASSESSMENT; TICLOPIDINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877065458     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH12-08-0588     Document Type: Article

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