Correlates of Bleeding Events Among Moderate- to High-Risk Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Treated With Eptifibatide
Observations From the PROTECTTIMI-30 Trial
Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM*,
Gregory Piazza, MD*,
Sabina A. Murphy, MPH
,
Daniela Budiu, MD
,
David A. Morrow, MD, MPH, FACC
,
David J. Cohen, MD, MSc*,1,
Eric Peterson, MD, MPH, FACC
,2,
Nasser Lakkis, MD, FACC
,
Howard C. Herrmann, MD, FACC||,3,
Theresa M. Palabrica, MD¶,4,
C. Michael Gibson, MS, MD, FACC*,
,5,* for the TIMI Study Group
* Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham & Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina
Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas
|| University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
¶ Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Figure 2 Relation of creatinine clearance (CrCl) and bleeding. IQ = interquartile range.
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Figure 3 Cumulative distribution function of duration of eptifibatide infusion in patients (pts) with bleeding. IQ = interquartile range.
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Figure 4 Relation of dose adjustment of eptifibatide infusion to bleeding. CrCl = creatinine clearance.
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