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Status:
US Approved Rx (2025)
First approved in 2012

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Apixaban is an orally active inhibitor of coagulation factor Xa with anticoagulant activity. Apixaban directly inhibits factor Xa, thereby interfering with the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin and preventing formation of cross-linked fibrin clot...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2011)
First approved in 2011

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



Rivaroxaban (trade name Xarelto) is an oral anticoagulant. It is the first available orally active direct factor Xa inhibitor. Upon oral administration, rivaroxaban selectively binds to both free factor Xa and factor Xa bound in the prothrombinase co...
Status:
US Previously Marketed
First approved in 2003

Class:
PROTEIN


Desirudin (Iprivask), a recombinant hirudin, is a parenteral direct thrombin inhibitor approved to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing elective hip replacement surgery. Desirudin is a potent inhibitor of both clot-bound and freely c...
Status:
US Previously Marketed
First approved in 1998

Class:
PROTEIN


Lepirudin is a direct thrombin inhibitor obtained by recombinant technology from the medicinal leech and used for treatment of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). Lepirudin was the first direct thrombin inhibitor approved and most frequently used...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2015)
First approved in 2015

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



Edoxaban (DU-176b, trade names Savaysa, Lixiana) is a selective factor Xa inhibitor reduces thrombin generation and thrombus formation and is an orally bioavailable anticoagulant drug. It was developed by Daiichi Sankyo to reduce the risk of stroke a...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2021)
First approved in 2010

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ACHIRAL)



Dabigatran (Pradaxa, Prazaxa) is an anticoagulant medication that can be taken by mouth. FDA approved on October 19, 2010. Dabigatran directly inhibits thrombin in a concentration-dependent, reversible, specific, and competitive manner which results ...
Status:
US Approved Rx (2018)
First approved in 2001

Class (Stereo):
CHEMICAL (ABSOLUTE)



Fondaparinux is a synthetic and specific inhibitor of activated Factor X (Xa). By selectively binding to antithrombin III (ATIII), fondaparinux sodium potentiates (about 300 times) the innate neutralization of Factor Xa by ATIII. Neutralization of Fa...