ANTICOAGULANTS, ANTIPLATELET DRUGS AND FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS Flashcards
_____ – Arrest of blood loss from damaged vessels
- Platelet _____ and activation
- Blood _____ (_____ formation)
Hemostasis
adhesion
coagulation
fibrin
thrombosis
- Inappropriate activation of haemostatic mechanisms
- -_____ thrombosis –associated with stasis of blood
- -_____ thrombosis –associated with atherosclerosis
Venous
arterial
_____: A portion of thrombus may break away , travel as an embolus and lodge downstream, causing ischemia and infarction
embolus
laboratory tests
- _____ – To assess the function of platelets
- -Normal 2-7 mins
- Platelet count (Platelet function test) – To quantify platelet function
- -Normal range: 150,000-450,000/µl
- Partial thromboplastin time (APTT) – To measure the speed of _____ pathway
- -Normal range: 25+- 10 seconds
- Prothrombin time – To measure the speed of _____ pathway
- -International normalized ratio (normal range 1.0)
Bleeding time
‘Intrinsic’
‘Extrinsic’
laboratory tests
- Clotting time –
- -Normal _____ mins
- Factor VIII coagulant level in plasma (_____) < 50%
- Factor IX levels (_____)
- _____ ds – v WF antigen and Ristocetin cofactor (RcoF)
- -Normal value is 100% (Range is 50 -150%)
- -Levels of factor VIII parallels v WF
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Hemophilia A
Hemophilia B
Von Willibrand’s
drug therapy
- To promote _____
- To prevent or treat _____ or thromboembolism
hemostasis
thrombus
defective hemostasis
-Deficiencies of clotting factors –
Hereditary –
-Classical hemophilia (lack of factor _____)
-Hemophilia B or Christmas disease caused by lack of factor _____ also called Christmas factor
-Missing factors can be supplied by giving _____ or concentrated preparations of factor VIII or factor IX
Acquired clotting defects –
- Liver disease,
- _____ deficiency,
- Excessive oral anticoagulant therapy –
- Require treatment with vitamin K
- Following excessive _____ therapy
- Difficulty in staunching hemorrhage following surgery or for menorrhagia
VIII IX fresh frozen plasma Vitamin K coagulation
vitamin k
- _____ vitamin occurring naturally in plants
- Requires bile salts for absorption
- Essential for formation of factor_____, _____, _____, _____ as well as protein _____ and protein _____
- Acts as a cofactor for gamma-glutamyl carboxylase
- Enzyme is required for carboxylation of factors in the liver and also of protein C and S (natural anticoagulants)
- Activated by _____ in the _____
- Given orally or iv
- Synthetic preparation (Menadiol sodium phosphate)
Fat soluble II, VII, IX, X C S epoxide reductase liver
clinical uses
- treatment and prevention of _____ resulting from the use of oral _____ like warfarin
- in babies to prevent hemorrhagic disease of new born
- in adults, for spruce, coeliac ds, steatorrhoea and obstructive jaundice
bleeding
anticoagulants
THROMBOSIS AND VIRCHOW’S TRIAD
-Formation of _____ within the vasculature in the absence of _____
hemostatic plug
bleeding
thrombosis Consequences – -Myocardial infarction, -Stroke, -DVT, -Pulmonary embolus
Drugs used to prevent or treat red thrombus are –
- _____ (Heparin and newer antithrombins)
- _____ (Warfarin and related compounds)
Drugs used for platelet-rich white thrombi are –
- Antiplatelet drugs (aspirin) and
- Fibrinolytic drugs
Injectable anticoagulants
Oral anticoagulants
INJECTABLE ANTICOAGULANTS HEPARIN AND LMWHs
- Heparin - is present with histamine in mast cells
- Heparin fragments (LMWHs) are used increasingly in place of heparin
- MOA – Activate _____
- Antithrombin III inhibits _____, _____ and other serine proteases
- Thrombin is more sensitive to the inhibitory effect of heparin-antithrombin III complex as compared to factor X
- LMWHs increase the action of antithrombin III on _____ but not on _____
antithrombin III thrombin (II) factor Xa factor Xa thrombin
ADMINISTRATION AND PHARMACOKINETICS
HEPARIN –
-Not absorbed from gut because of its charge and large size
-Given iv, sc (im injection can cause hematoma)
-Onset of action is _____ after iv injection but onset is delayed by 1 hour after _____
-Elimination T/2 is 40-90 minutes
-In emergencies- bolus dose is followed by continuous infusion
-The dosage is monitored with _____ and dosage is adjusted to achieve a value within (1.5 -2.5 times control)
immediate
sc inj
APTT
unwanted effects
- Hemorrhage – Stop the therapy, if necessary give _____ iv. It is basic and forms an inactive complex with heparin
- _____ – Two types (Transitory early and Serious thrombocytopenia 2-14 days later)
- Thrombosis and DIC – Abs also bind to glycosaminoglycans on the surface of endothelial cells, leading to immune injury of the vessel wall
- _____ – With long term heparin (>6 months), seen usually during pregnancy
- Hypoaldosteronism – Consequent hyperkalemia
- Hypersensitivity reactions – Rare with heparin but more common with protamine sulfate
Protamine sulfate
Thrombocytopenia (HIT)
Osteoporosis
HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA(HIT)
- Suspect if recently treated with heparin
- Platelet counts decline within 5- 10 days in pt with no previous exposure to heparin
- Platelet activating abs recognizing multimolecular complexes bound to unfractionated heparin or LMWH
- Characteristics – Erythematous or necrotizing skin reactions at the site of injection or deep vein thrombosis, pulm emboli, stroke, MI
- Test – ELISA
- If confirmed, _____ is stopped immediately and treatment is started with _____
heparin
nonheparin anticoagulant