Abelacimab shown to be an effective blood clot treatment

[2greys]

A potentially game-changing treatment for people with, or at risk of, blood clots has been found effective by an international team of researchers led by McMaster University’s Jeffrey Weitz.

Weitz’s team compared abelacimab with enoxaparin as a control drug in 412 patients undergoing knee replacement surgery. Results showed that just one abelacimab injection prevents blood clots for up to a month after surgery, reducing the risk by about 80% compared with enoxaparin without increasing the risk of bleeding.

Their findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine today, coinciding with Weitz’s presentation of the research at the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis 2021 Congress.

Weitz, a hematologist, is a professor of medicine and of biochemistry and biomedical sciences at McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine and executive director of the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute.

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New England Journal of Medicine. Study Paper:

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[katieoxo60]

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