Modern antiplatelet management of coronary artery bypass patients: A role of platelet function testing in decision making

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 249-250

  Petricevic, Mate ^a   Biocina, Bojan ^a   Safradin, Ivica ^a   Milicic, Davor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; TICLOPIDINE;

ANTICOAGULATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 84898429863     PISSN: 09295305     EISSN: 1573742X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11239-013-0937-5     Document Type: Letter

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