The novel anticoagulants: the surgeons' prospective

Surgery. 2013 Mar;153(3):303-7. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2012.09.016. Epub 2012 Dec 4.

Abstract

Anticoagulants can complicate the approach to the management of patients undergoing operative interventions. We review new anticoagulants that have been introduced recently to the market or that are undergoing investigations for treatment of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolism prophylaxis: Dabigatran, rivaroxaban, apixiban, and edoxaban.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Anticoagulants / adverse effects*
  • Anticoagulants / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Anticoagulants / pharmacokinetics
  • Anticoagulants / pharmacology
  • Atrial Fibrillation / drug therapy
  • Benzimidazoles / adverse effects
  • Benzimidazoles / pharmacokinetics
  • Benzimidazoles / pharmacology
  • Blood Loss, Surgical
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Dabigatran
  • Humans
  • Morpholines / adverse effects
  • Morpholines / pharmacokinetics
  • Morpholines / pharmacology
  • Pyrazoles / adverse effects
  • Pyrazoles / pharmacokinetics
  • Pyrazoles / pharmacology
  • Pyridines / adverse effects
  • Pyridines / pharmacokinetics
  • Pyridines / pharmacology
  • Pyridones / adverse effects
  • Pyridones / pharmacokinetics
  • Pyridones / pharmacology
  • Rivaroxaban
  • Stroke / prevention & control
  • Surgical Procedures, Operative / adverse effects*
  • Thiazoles / adverse effects
  • Thiazoles / pharmacokinetics
  • Thiazoles / pharmacology
  • Thiophenes / adverse effects
  • Thiophenes / pharmacokinetics
  • Thiophenes / pharmacology
  • Venous Thromboembolism / prevention & control
  • Warfarin / adverse effects
  • beta-Alanine / adverse effects
  • beta-Alanine / analogs & derivatives
  • beta-Alanine / pharmacokinetics
  • beta-Alanine / pharmacology

Substances

  • Anticoagulants
  • Benzimidazoles
  • Morpholines
  • Pyrazoles
  • Pyridines
  • Pyridones
  • Thiazoles
  • Thiophenes
  • beta-Alanine
  • apixaban
  • Warfarin
  • Rivaroxaban
  • Dabigatran
  • edoxaban