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Low Molecular Weight Heparins
- Like heparin
- probably better
- do not need monitoring
- one daily injection
Drugs in class
- dalteparin
- enoxaparin
- tinzaparin
Mechanism of action
- bind to antithrombin III
- activated antithrombin III now forms a complex with the factor Xa
- prevents Xa from converting prothrombin to thrombin (i.e. there is no
thrombin formation)
- further thrombus formation prevented
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