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Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Top 10 Anticoagulant Drug Interactions

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5716 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Apixaban is one of the most commonly used anticoagulants and there are some drug interactions you need to be aware of. Take a listen and find out!



Warfarin concentrations can substantially be elevated by drugs that inhibit CYP2C9. I cover a few of them in my top 10 anticoagulant drug interactions.

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Well, I've got another special episode for you guys today on drug interactions. More

0:56.7

specifically, I'm going to take a look at my top 10 anticoagulant drug interaction. So, definitely

1:05.6

going to be touching on Pixaban, Warfarin, maybe even a little bit of lovinox and heparin. So plenty of drug interactions

1:15.3

here that you should know. Obviously, it's not an all-inclusive list, but it's some of the

1:20.0

most common things I've come across in practice, as well as maybe some of the most significant

1:24.8

things that you should be paying attention to with regard to anticoagulants.

1:30.0

So without further ado, here we go.

1:33.0

Number one, Apixaban, River Oxiban, these two agents have been certainly growing in popularity.

1:41.5

And it is recommended to avoid strong inducers of SIP 3A4 and peak glyca protein.

1:50.0

So Sip 3A4 is an enzyme that breaks this drug down.

1:53.3

Peak like a protein is a transporter that essentially helps get rid of drug, reduce concentrations.

2:03.0

And by inducing the action of these two things,

2:07.2

what you end up doing is lowering concentrations of apixaban or roxabam,

2:13.1

which ultimately increases the risk for blood clots,

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