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    Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) are a group of substances that reduce blood clotting by reducing the action of vitamin K. The term "vitamin K antagonist" is...
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    Vitamin K is a family of structurally similar, fat-soluble vitamers found in foods and marketed as dietary supplements. The human body requires vitamin...
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    and a life-threatening bleeding rate of 1-3% per year. Newer non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants appear to have fewer life-threatening bleeding...
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    Acenocoumarol (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Acenocoumarol is an anticoagulant that functions as a vitamin K antagonist (like warfarin). It is a derivative of coumarin and is generic, so is marketed...
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  • score of 2 and above, oral anticoagulation therapy (OAC) with a vitamin K antagonist (VKA, e.g. warfarin with target INR of 2-3) or one of the direct...
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    Brodifacoum (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison. In recent years, it has become one of the world's most widely...
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    4-Hydroxycoumarins are a class of vitamin K antagonist (VKA) anticoagulant drug molecules. Chemically, they are derived from coumarin by adding a hydroxy...
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    the vitamin K antagonist at an adjusted lower dose when the target INR is reached. For people who need rapid reversal of the vitamin K antagonist – such...
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    Coumatetralyl (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Coumatetralyl is an anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type used as a rodenticide. Coumatetralyl is commonly used with grains...
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    Phenprocoumon (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    drug to be taken by mouth, and a coumarin derivative. It acts as a vitamin K antagonist and inhibits blood clotting (coagulation) by blocking synthesis of...
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    rodenticide. It is a second-generation 4-hydroxycoumarin derivative and vitamin K antagonist, often called a "super-warfarin" for its added potency and tendency...
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    Difenacoum is an anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type. It has anticoagulant effects and is used commercially as a rodenticide...
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  • Vitamin K deficiency results from insufficient dietary vitamin K1 or vitamin K2 or both. Symptoms include bruising, petechiae, and haematoma. Vitamin...
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    Warfarin (redirect from Athrombin-K)
    a vitamin K antagonist, warfarin does not antagonize the action of vitamin K1, but rather antagonizes vitamin K1 recycling, depleting active vitamin K1...
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    Phenindione (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Phenindione is an anticoagulant which functions as a Vitamin K antagonist. Phenindione was introduced in the early 1950s. It acts similar to warfarin,...
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    Vitamin K2 or menaquinone (MK) (/ˌmɛnəˈkwɪnoʊn/) is one of three types of vitamin K, the other two being vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) and K3 (menadione)...
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    Fluindione is a vitamin K antagonist It is used as an anticoagulant. Mentré F, Pousset F, Comets E, et al. (January 1998). "Population pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic...
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    Vitamin K reactions are adverse side effects that may occur after injection with vitamin K. The liver utilizes vitamin K to produce coagulation factors...
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    be taken by mouth, and these oral medicines include warfarin (a vitamin K antagonist), rivaroxaban (a factor Xa inhibitor), apixaban (a factor Xa inhibitor)...
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  • Superwarfarin (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Superwarfarins are highly potent vitamin K antagonist anticoagulants that are used as rodenticides. They are called superwarfarins because they are much...
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    de Veer AJ, Bode K, Mahmoodi BK, Dewilde WJ, Lip GY, et al. (March 2018). "Efficacy and Safety of the Use of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants...
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    Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a water-soluble vitamin involved in metabolism. It is one of eight B vitamins. It is required by animals, which...
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    Flocoumafen (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    fluorinated, second-generation anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type. It is a second generation (i.e., high potency) chemical in...
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  • SAMe-TT2R2 score is a clinical prediction rule to predict the quality of vitamin K antagonist anticoagulation therapy as measured by time in therapeutic INR range...
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    patients are also on a medication called warfarin, a vitamin K antagonist, that limits vitamin K recycling in the body. Reported risk factors include...
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  • They are effective in the arterial circulation where classical Vitamin K antagonist anticoagulants have minimal effect. Antiplatelet drugs are widely...
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    Diphenadione (category Vitamin K antagonists)
    Diphenadione is a vitamin K antagonist that has anticoagulant effects and is used as a rodenticide against rats, mice, voles, ground squirrels and other...
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    anticoagulants to increase the risk of bleeding. Dosage adjustment of vitamin K antagonist may be necessary. Statins: Combination of statins and fenofibrate...
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    2019). "Vitamin K and Bone Health: A Review on the Effects of Vitamin K Deficiency and Supplementation and the Effect of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants...
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    many years, vitamin K antagonists (warfarin or less commonly acenocoumarol or phenprocoumon) have been the cornerstone. As vitamin K antagonists do not act...
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