title: [Anticoagulant treatment failure].
abstract: Anticoagulant therapy includes unfractionated heparin and vitamin K antagonists' administration. In both of these two types of drugs a treatment failure could occur. Currently available anticoagulants have a numerous disadvantages which could be involved in causes of their malfunctioning. During every new event of the re-thrombosis it is necessary to analyse all circumstances which influence this unfavourable outcome. Firstly, cases during adequate and non-adequate therapy should be distinguished. Secondly, it is important to identify the reasons of the treatment failure. Cancer and/or antiphospholipid antibodies are the main causes of re-thrombosis during adequate therapy. The conditions, which could steer for to non-adequate anticoagulation are various, and their identification could be difficult. The most important thing in this process is the objective documentation of the re-thrombosis. More efficacious, safer, and easier to use anticoagulants are under development. Some of them could bring a problem solution for these patients who underwent anticoagulant treatment failure.
authors.affiliation: Oddĕlení klinické hematologie FN Brno. abulik@fnbrno.cz
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buliková
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Penka
mesh_terms: D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006493:Heparin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000517:prevention & control; D012008:Recurrence; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017211:Treatment Failure; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014859:Warfarin / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D014859:Warfarin; D006493:Heparin