Tuesday 14 June 2016

Antithrombotics & thrombolytic



Diagram 1:Overview of blood clotting mechanism & antithrombotics,thrombolytic agent

only now I noticed that the upper part of the note is disappear. The top of the note is 
"Tissue damage->stop protacyclin"followed by " release vWF factor".
 Von Willebrand factor (vWF) is a blood glycoprotein involved in hemostasis.

Please note that antithrombotics are the agents that reduce the clot formation whereas thrombolytic agents dissolve blood clots.

                                       
Diagram 2: Summaries of different type of antithrombotics and thrombolytics agent. 
AR=adverse reaction

The differences between Unfractional heparin and low molecular weight heparin is summarised as below:





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