25. Drugs Affecting Blood

Ian Mullaney

School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA6150, Australia.

Phone +61 8 93601236 Fax +61 8 93601240 Email i.mullaney@murdoch.edu.au

Reviewer : Elizabeth Davis, Monash University

Key words: platelet aggregation inhibitors, aspirin, dipyramidole, clopidogrel, abciximab, eptifibatide, tirofiban, anticoagulants, heparin, enoxaparin, dalteparin, warfarin, thrombolytics, streptokinase, alteplase, tenectaplase, reteplase, iron salts, colbalamins, folic acid, erythropoietin, hydroxyurea, clotting factors, vitamin K1, protamine sulphate, tranexamic acid, aprotinin

Contents

25. Drugs affecting blood

25.1 Introduction

25.2 Important dysfunctions of the blood system

25.3 Drugs used in to correct dysfunctions of the blood

25.3.1 Anti-thrombosis treatments

25.3.1.1 Platelet aggregation inhibitors

25.3.1.2 Anticoagulants

25.3.1.3 Thrombolytics

25.3.2 Treatments for anaemia

25.3.3 Treatments for bleeding disorders