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Novel Anticoagulant Therapy: Principle and Practice

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Anticoagulants, Antiplatelets, and Thrombolytics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 663))

Abstract

Currently, there are several lines of evidence supporting the interplay between coagulation and inflammation in the propagation of various disease processes, including venous thromboembolism (VTE) and inflammatory diseases. Major advances in the development of oral anticoagulants have resulted in considerable progress toward the goal of safe and effective oral anticoagulants that do not require frequent monitoring or dose adjustment and have minimal food/drug interactions. Indirect inhibitors such as low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and the pentasaccharide fondaparinux represent improvements over traditional drugs such as unfractionated heparin for acute treatment of VTE, constituting a more targeted anticoagulant approach with predictable pharmacokinetic profiles and no requirement for monitoring. Vitamin K antagonist, with its inherent limitations in terms of multiple food and drug interactions and frequent need for monitoring, remains the only oral anticoagulant approved for long-term secondary thromboprophylaxis in VTE. The oral-direct thrombin inhibitor ximelagatran was withdrawn from the world market due to safety concerns. Newer anticoagulant drugs such as parenteral pentasaccharides (idraparinux, SSR126517E), novel oral-direct thrombin inhibitors (dabigatran), oral-direct factor Xa inhibitors (rivaroxaban, apixaban, YM-150, DU-176b), and tissue factor/factor VIIa complex inhibitors have been “tailor-made” to target specific procoagulant complexes and have the potential to greatly expand oral antithrombotic targets for both acute and long-term treatment of VTE, acute coronary syndromes, and for the prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation patients.

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