The evidence for the DOACs like Xarelto for antiphopholipid antibody is not as strong as the evidence for warfarin. There is some suggestion that Xarelto etc may not work as well for arterial clots, though they both seem to work OK for venous clots. Anyway it has not been super well studied but until there is a good study showing comparable efficacy with both drugs in a large number of patients, the recommendation will likely continue to be for warfarin. At least that is my understanding.
On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 6:18 AM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > As you may recall a while back I was in the hospital due to blood clots. > They put me on Xarelto. It was still a mystery as to why this happened in > the first place. My primary doctor sent me to a cancer doctor to figure it > out. Went back to him for the 2nd time last week to run tests. Turns out I > evidently have something called antiphospholid antibody syndrome. They are > moving me from Xarelto to Coumadin for some reason which will require me to > get blood tests weekly for a few weeks then monthly after. I guess I will > ask but not sure why they would take me off the newer state of the art > blood thinner that requires no testing to this older cheaper medication > that does. > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
