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ACUTE VENOUS
THROMBOEMBOLISM:
ED DISCHARGE Harish Kinni
EM/IM/CCM PGY 3
2/19/2015
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Case
• 71 YO female with PMH of HTN, OSA, GERD, and
asthma who presented to the ED with SOB and chest
pain x 2 days. VS: BP 142/80 | Pulse 55 | Temp(Src) 37
°C (98.6 °F) (Oral) | Resp 18 | SpO2 96%
• Labs neg; tropx2 negative; EKG: non ischemic
• CXR negative
• CTPE: right proximal descending pulmonary artery filling
defect
• What to do???
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Objectives
• Background on VTE
• Review Coagulation Cascade
• Therapy for VTE
• Review NOAC and safety profile
• Cost of NOAC
• Henry Ford ED pathway
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Venous Thromboebolism
• VTE affects 1 to 2 per 1000 annually
• 3rd most common cause of vascular death
• Pulmonary Embolism
• Incidence: 70 cases per 100,000
• Cost due to thrombosis and complications: >500,000 million dollars
• Treatment
• Standard therapy with parenteral heparin with overlapping vitamin
K antagonist
• After first year, major bleeding risk: 1-2%
• Decreases the risk of recurrent disease from 25% to 3%
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Treament
• Heparin + Warfarin
• Lovenox + Warfarin
• Lovenox
• Fondaparinux
• Direct Thrombin inhibitors
• Xa inhibitors
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Treatment
• Advantages over Tradition
therapy
• Laboratory monitoring
• No need for INR or coagulation
monitoring
• Pharmacokinetics
• Less variability in drug effect
• Biology
• Benefit in Percutaneous cardiac
interventions
• Inhibition of clot bound thrombin
• Heparin Induced
thrombocytopenia
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Treatment
• Disadvantages
• Prosthetic heart valves
• Pregnancy
• Renal Impairment
• Compliance
• Dosing convenience
• Cost
• Reversal Issues
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Treatment
• Dabigatran (Pradaxa): Direct Thrombin (II) inhibitor
• RE-COVER
• RE-COVER II
• Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) : Xa Inhibitor
• EINSTEIN
• EINSTEIN- PE
• Apixaban (Eliquis): Xa Inhibitor
• AMPLIFY
• AMPLIFY –EXT
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• Randomized, double blinded
• Non inferiority trial
• Primary outcome
• 6 month incidence of recurrent, symptomatic VTE and related
deaths
• Dabigatran: 30/1274 vs Warfarin: 27/1265
• Safety Outcome
• Bleeding events, Acute Coronary syndrome, other adverse events,
and LFTs
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• Randomized, open label, non inferiority study event driven
• 3, 6, 12 months
• Double blind, randomized, event driven superiority study
for addition 6 or 12 months (after completion of 6 or 12
months of treatment)
• Primary efficacy outcome: recurrent VTE
• 36/1731 Rivaroxaban vs 51/1718 Warfarin (Acute DVT)
• Primary safety outcome
• Initial trial: major bleed or clinically relevant non-major bleeding
• Continued treatment trial: Major bleeding
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Acute DVT study
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Continued treatment
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• Randomized, double blinded, non inferiority
• Primary efficacy outcome
• Recurrent symptomatic VTE or death related to VTE
• 59/2609 (2.3%) Apixaban vs 71/2635 (2.7%) Conventional therapy
• Primary Safety outcome
• Major bleeding
• Overt and associated with 2g/dL or more drop, transfusion with 2pRBC
or more, critical site, or contributed to death
• Secondary safety outcome
• Composite major bleeding and clinically relevant non major
bleeding
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Bleeding concerns
• Dabigatran and Postmarketing Reports of Bleeding (2013)
• FDA Mini-Sentinel database analysis revealed no increase in event
compared to warfarin
• The impact of bleeding complications in patients receiving
target-specific oral anticoagulants: a systematic review
and meta-analysis (2014)
• 12 RCTs involving 102,607 patients
• Significantly reduced risk of major bleed, fatal bleeds, intracranial
bleeds, clinically relevant non major bleeding, and total bleeds
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Bleeding concerns
• Effectiveness and safety of novel oral anticoagulants as
compared with vitamin K antagonists in the treatment of
acute symptomatic venous thromboembolism: a
systematic review and meta-analysis
• 5 RCTs involving 24,455 patients
• Comparable efficacy with significant lower risk of bleeding
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Effectiveness and safety of novel oral anticoagulants as compared with vitamin K antagonists in the
treatment of acute symptomatic venous thromboembolism: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
Volume 12, Issue 3, pages 320-328, 5 MAR 2014 DOI: 10.1111/jth.12485
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jth.12485/full#jth12485-fig-0004
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Will you consider one of the newer
anticoagulants???
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Cost
• Comparison of differences in medical costs when new oral anticoagulants are used for the treatment of patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolism vs warfarin or placebo in the US (2014) • Combined NVAF, acute VTE, and extended VTE patient
populations, medical-cost differences were −$10.0, −$10.9, −$21.0, and −$21.0 million for dabigatran, rivaroxaban, 2.5 mg apixaban, and 5 mg apixaban, respectively
• Cost of treating venous thromboembolism with heparin and warfarin versus home treatment with rivaroxaban (2014) • Median hospital charges for six months after diagnosis were
$11,128 (IQR $8,110- $23,390) for controls vs $4,787 (IQR $3,042-$7,596) for cases
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So now you’re considering using one of
the NOAC…..
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Henry Ford Workflow
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Henry Ford Workflow
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Henry Ford Workflow
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Henry Ford Workflow
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Thank you
Questions????
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