Utility of anti-factor Xa monitoring in surgical patients receiving prophylactic doses of enoxaparin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis

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BACKGROUND: Between 2% and 10% of the highest risk surgery, patients have a "breakthrough" venous thromboembolism (VTE) event despite receipt of chemoprophylaxis. The goals of this review are to summarize how patient-level factors may predict enoxaparin metabolism and how alterations in enoxaparin dose magnitude and frequency affect both anti-factor Xa (aFXa) levels and downstream VTE events.

DATA SOURCES: Relevant articles were identified on PubMed. Fixed-dose prophylaxis provides inadequate enoxaparin prophylaxis for most surgical patients based on anti-factor Xa levels. Inadequate enoxaparin dosing has been correlated with both asymptomatic and symptomatic VTE events. Patient-level factors such as gross weight and extent of injury predict enoxaparin metabolism. Weight-based or weight-tiered dosing regimens-and real-time dose adjustment based on anti-factor Xa levels-allow an increased proportion of patients to have in-range anti-factor Xa levels.

CONCLUSIONS: Inadequate enoxaparin dosing may explain why some patients have VTE despite enoxaparin prophylaxis. Ongoing research in the utility of weight-based or anti-factor Xa level driven enoxaparin dosing and dose adjustment is reasonable.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:213

Enthalten in:

American journal of surgery - 213(2017), 6 vom: 19. Juni, Seite 1143-1152

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pannucci, Christopher J [VerfasserIn]
Prazak, Ann Marie [VerfasserIn]
Scheefer, Melody [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-factor Xa
Anticoagulants
Deep venous thrombosis
Drug metabolism
Enoxaparin
Factor Xa Inhibitors
Journal Article
Pulmonary embolus
Review
Venous thromboembolism

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Date Completed 21.08.2017

Date Revised 21.08.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.amjsurg.2016.08.010

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM264893921