MODERN APPROACHES TO ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY OF PULMONARY EMBOLISM: FOCUS ON RIVAROXABAN

Abstract

The analytical article provides a modern state of the anticoagulant therapy in pulmonary thromboembolism. Major advantages and preferential use of direct selective peroral anticoagulants represented by thrombin inhibitor dabigatran and a Xa factor inhibitors composed of apixaban, edoxaban and rivaroxaban. Attention is focused on rivaroxaban the evidence base of which in pulmonary thromboembolism was widened in 2017 by data of the EINSTEIN CHOICE study. Its results allow considering the use of the rivaroxaban 10 mg 1 time per day as a possibility of long-term, actually many year prevention of the pulmonary thromboembolism after the end of the standard course of the therapeutic anticoagulation involving use of a high dosage of the drug (15 mg 2 times per day) for 3 weeks actually from the moment of the disease diagnostics and continuation for 6-12 months of the drug administration at a dose of 20 mg 1 time per day. As a result for many patients with pulmonary thromboembolism use of rivaroxaban at various dosages without transfer to another coagulant allows considerably satisfying the requirements in antithrombotic therapy at various stages of such patients management.