Clinical outcomes in traumatic brain injury patients on preinjury clopidogrel: A prospective analysis

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 817-820

  Joseph, Bellal ^a   Pandit, Viraj ^a   Aziz, Hassan ^a   Kulvatunyou, Narong ^a   Hashmi, Ammar ^a   Tang, Andrew ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^a   Wynne, Julie ^a   Vercruysse, Gary ^a   Friese, Randall S ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clopidogrel therapy; Neurosurgical intervention; Progression on repeat head computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CLOPIDOGREL;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TICLOPIDINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896717162     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182aafcf0     Document Type: Article

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