Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?

Use of coumarin and heparin for more than sixty years, has been an effective and powerfulmedical tool for treatment and prevention of thromboembolic diseases, tarnished nevertheless,by their little security and laboratory controls which are frequently needed. Such reasonsmake for an effective challe...

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Main Authors: Fidel Cáceres Loriga, Aida Crespo Guerra
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: ECIMED 2011-01-01
Series:Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular
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Online Access:http://www.revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/viewFile/87/61
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description Use of coumarin and heparin for more than sixty years, has been an effective and powerfulmedical tool for treatment and prevention of thromboembolic diseases, tarnished nevertheless,by their little security and laboratory controls which are frequently needed. Such reasonsmake for an effective challenge and an active field, searching the ideal anticoagulant inscientific investigation, drugs to inhibit specific clot factors, able to exclude the weak pointsof the available ones is its goal. In this article, we consider physiopathology for thrombi formationand we review too the history, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties ofold anticoagulants drugs, their limitations, just when new anticoagulants drugs haveemerged as inhibitors of thrombin or Xa factor, whose effectiveness and security are beingcontrasted with the traditional ones in wide programs of current execution with atrial fibrillationand coronary syndromes included, and they could potentially substitute the old ones ina near future.
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spellingShingle Fidel Cáceres Loriga
Aida Crespo Guerra
Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
Revista Cubana de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular
Anticoagulants
thrombosis
warfarina
heparin
rivaroxaban
dabigatran
fondaparinux.
title Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
title_full Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
title_fullStr Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
title_full_unstemmed Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
title_short Old and New anticoagulants: The beginning of a new era?
title_sort old and new anticoagulants the beginning of a new era
topic Anticoagulants
thrombosis
warfarina
heparin
rivaroxaban
dabigatran
fondaparinux.
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