Argatroban Brand Name– Argatroban
What is Argatroban
Argatroban is an intravenous direct thrombin inhibitor indicated for thrombosis prophylaxis or treatment in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) and as an anticoagulant in patients with or at risk of HIT undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
Guidelines recommend argatroban or bivalirudin over other nonheparin anticoagulants in patients with HIT who require PCI.
Unlike other nonheparin anticoagulants, argatroban is hepatically eliminated and can be used in patients with end-stage renal disease without dosage adjustment. In clinical trials, argatroban reduced the relative risk of death, new thrombosis, or other complications in patients with HIT.
Indications
- acute myocardial infarction
- coronary artery thrombosis prophylaxis
- deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
- deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis
- disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
- heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
- percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
- pulmonary embolism
- pulmonary embolism prophylaxis
For use as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis (i.e., deep venous thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism) or for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis (i.e., deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis, pulmonary embolism prophylaxis) in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
Side Effects
- abdominal pain
- angina
- atrial fibrillation
- back pain
- bleeding
- bleeding
- bradycardia
- bullous rash
- cardiac arrest
- chest pain (unspecified)
- cough
- diarrhea
- dyspnea
- fever
- gastroesophageal reflux
- GI bleeding
- headache
- hematemesis
- hematoma
- hematuria
- hematuria
- hemoptysis
- hypotension
- infection
- intracranial bleeding
- myocardial infarction
- nausea
- peripheral vasodilation
- pulmonary edema
- rash
- retroperitoneal bleeding
- thrombosis
- ventricular tachycardia
- vomiting
Monitoring Parameters
- hemoglobin/hematocrit
- partial thromboplastin time (PTT)
- platelet count
- serum creatinine
- stool guaiac
- urinalysis
Contraindications
- abrupt discontinuation
- aneurysm
- angina
- bleeding
- breast-feeding
- children
- coagulopathy
- diverticulitis
- endocarditis
- GI bleeding
- hemophilia
- hepatic disease
- hypertension
- infants
- inflammatory bowel disease
- intracranial bleeding
- intramuscular injections
- labor
- lumbar puncture
- menstruation
- neonates
- obstetric delivery
- peptic ulcer disease
- pregnancy
- renal disease
- retroperitoneal bleeding
- spinal anesthesia
- stroke
- surgery
- trauma
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- Abciximab
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