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Bleeding in a patient receiving platelet aggregation inhibitors
J H Waters1, D G Anthony, A Gottlieb
1Department of General Anesthesiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. Watersj@ccf.org
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|September 28, 2001
Implications:
We describe a patient who experienced intraoperative bleeding after being treated with platelet receptor glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist eptifibatide. We used Sonoclot and Thrombelastograph to monitor antiplatelet effects of eptifibatide.