title: Current Practices in the Management of Antithrombotic Therapy During the Periendoscopic Period for Patients With Cardiovascular Disease.
abstract: The management of antithrombotics during the periendoscopic period is traditionally represented as a doubleedged sword for cardiologists and endoscopists. Appropriate administration prevents thromboembolic events, whereas excessive administration provokes bleeding events. Therefore, cardiologists and endoscopists must consider the risks of bleeding and thromboembolism in individual cases, before deciding whether to continue antithrombotic use. Several guidelines exist concerning antithrombotic management in Asian and Western countries. These guidelines generally classify procedural bleeding risk and thromboembolic risk into high risk and low risk groups and recommend that the two risks be weighed when managing a given patient. Moreover, they generally do not recommend interrupting antithrombotics during the periendoscopic period unless absolutely necessary; however, the details surrounding this point differ among the guidelines after several revisions. In this review, we describe the present state, problems, and future perspectives concerning the management of antithrombotics in patients with cardiovascular disease undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy.
authors: Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo.
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Ono
authors: Itaru
authors: I
authors: Saito
authors: Yuichi
authors: Y
authors: Ikeda
authors: Mitsuhiro
authors: M
authors: Fujishiro
authors: Issei
authors: I
authors: Komuro
authors: Kazuhiko
authors: K
authors: Koike
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D019990:Perioperative Care
chemical_list: D005343:Fibrinolytic Agents