Anticoagulant Drugs: What Are They? What are they for? Mechanism of Action and Side Effects

of those who have already formed. The formation of thrombus in blood vessels, in fact, is an event that can lead to very serious and sometimes fatal consequences, especially if the thrombus detaches from the wall of the vessel in which it was formed and enters the bloodstream.

Currently there are different types of anticoagulant drugs - administered through different routes - which exert their therapeutic activity through specific mechanisms of action.

Unlike platelet antiplatelet agents that act on platelet aggregation, anticoagulant drugs interfere with the coagulation process by acting on the coagulation factors and coagulation factors whose activation leads to the formation of a fibrin network that traps the blood cells giving origin of the clot.