Association between bleeding and mortality among women and men with high-risk acute coronary syndromes: Insights from the Early versus Delayed, Provisional Eptifibatide in Acute Coronary Syndromes (EARLY ACS) trial

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 723-728

  Kaul, Padma ^a   Tanguay, Jean François ^b   Newby, L Kristin ^c   Hochman, Judith S ^d   Westerhout, Cynthia M ^a   Califf, Robert M ^c   Tricoci, Pierluigi ^c   Gibson, C Michael ^e   Giugliano, Robert P ^f   Harrington, Robert A ^g   Van De Werf, Frans ^h   Armstrong, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPTIFIBATIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THERAPY DELAY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDES; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIIB-IIIA COMPLEX; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84885130324     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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