Institute of Pharmacology, West-German Heart and Vascular Center, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Clinic for Cardiology and Angiology, West-German Heart and Vascular Center, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Pharmacol Res. 2019 Jul;145:104257. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2019.104257. Epub 2019 May 2.
Mechanistic understanding of atrial fibrillation (AF) pathophysiology and the complex bidirectional relationship with thromboembolic risk remains limited. Oral anticoagulation is a mainstay of AF management. An emerging concept is that anticoagulants may themselves have potential pleiotropic disease-modifying effects. We here review the available evidence for hemostasis-independent actions of the oral anticoagulants on electrical and structural remodeling, and the inflammatory component of the vulnerable substrate.
尽管人们对心房颤动 (AF) 病理生理学的机制理解以及与血栓栓塞风险的复杂双向关系仍然有限,但口服抗凝剂仍然是 AF 管理的主要方法。一个新兴的概念是,抗凝剂本身可能具有潜在的多效性疾病修饰作用。我们在这里回顾了口服抗凝剂在电重构和易损基质的炎症成分方面对止血作用以外的作用的现有证据。