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  2. Apixaban - Wikipedia

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    Apixaban is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in people with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and at least one of the following risk factors: prior stroke or transient ischemic attack, age 75 years or older, diabetes, or symptomatic heart failure.

  3. Direct factor Xa inhibitors - Wikipedia

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    Side effects may include bleeding, most commonly from the nose, gastrointestinal tract (GI) or genitourinary system. [2] Compared to the risk of bleeding with warfarin use, direct factor Xa inhibitors have a higher risk of GI bleeding, but lower risk of bleeding in the brain . [ 2 ]

  4. Loading dose - Wikipedia

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    A loading dose is most useful for drugs that are eliminated from the body relatively slowly, i.e. have a long systemic half-life. Such drugs need only a low maintenance dose in order to keep the amount of the drug in the body at the appropriate therapeutic level, but this also means that, without an initial higher dose, it would take a long ...

  5. ELIQUIS® (apixaban) Receives CHMP Positive Opinion For ... - AOL

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    ELIQUIS ® (apixaban) Receives CHMP Positive Opinion For The Prevention Of Stroke And Systemic Embolism In Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation PRINCETON, N.J. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

  6. Adverse drug reaction - Wikipedia

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    Type A: augmented pharmacological effects, which are dose-dependent and predictable [5]; Type A reactions, which constitute approximately 80% of adverse drug reactions, are usually a consequence of the drug's primary pharmacological effect (e.g., bleeding when using the anticoagulant warfarin) or a low therapeutic index of the drug (e.g., nausea from digoxin), and they are therefore predictable.

  7. Adenosine diphosphate receptor inhibitor - Wikipedia

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    The clinically approved dose of prasugrel is a 60-mg loading dose PO and a 10-mg a day maintenance dose PO. [28] Ticagrelor is a much more potent inhibitor of platelet aggregation than clopidogrel, however, it is associated with increase of dyspnoea episodes in patients. These episodes can range from mild to moderate severity.

  8. Discovery and development of direct Xa inhibitors - Wikipedia

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    Heparin targets multiple factors in the blood coagulation cascade, one of them being FXa. At first, it had many side effects but for the next twenty years, investigators worked on heparin to make it better and safer. It entered clinical trials in 1935 and the first drug was launched in 1936. Chains of natural heparin can vary from 5.000 to 40. ...

  9. Business owners should not forget anti-money laundering rule ...

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    Small business owners should not forget about a rule — currently in legal limbo — that would require them to register with an agency called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN ...