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ReviewVascular health and risk management2008

Percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute coronary syndrome: focus on bivalirudin.

Ravi K Ramana, Bruce E Lewis

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Review in Vascular health and risk management, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ravi K RamanaDivision of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 60647, USA. rkramana@earthlink.net
Bruce E Lewis
Loyola University Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previously, indirect thrombin inhibitors such as unfractionated heparin or low-molecular-weight heparin were used as a standard anticoagulation during percutaneous coronary intervention to prevent procedural thrombotic complications but at a risk of hemorrhagic complications. More recently, bivalirudin, a member of the direct thrombin inhibitor class, has been shown to have 1) predictable pharmacokinetics, 2) ability to inhibit free- and clot-bound thrombin, 3) no properties of platelet activation, 4) avoidance of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, and 5) a significant reduction of bleeding without a reduction in thrombotic or ischemic endpoints compared to heparin and glycoprotein IIbIIIa inhibitors when used in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome who are planned for an invasive treatment strategy.

Indexed as

Angioplasty, Balloon, CoronaryAcute Coronary SyndromeAnemiaAngina, UnstableAnticoagulantsAntithrombinsBlood CoagulationComorbidityCoronary ThrombosisHeparinHirudinsHumansMyocardial InfarctionPeptide FragmentsRecombinant ProteinsThrombocytopeniaAnticoagulantsAntithrombinsbivalirudinHeparinHirudinsPeptide FragmentsRecombinant Proteinsacute coronary syndromebivalirudincoronary interventiondirect thrombin inhibitor

Identifiers

PMID18827868
PMCPMC2515410
OpenAlexW1936995486

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