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Study aim
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Determining the effect of low-dose apixaban in the treatment of symptomatic cases of radial artery occlusion
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Design
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In this study, the number of 30 patients (15 in the study group and 15 in the control group) among the people who experienced symptoms such as pain, swelling, and numbness, were evaluated using Doppler waves with a prop Vasculature has been examined and the people who have been confirmed to have radial artery occlusion and who meet the necessary criteria based on the project manager's review to be included in the study, after obtaining informed and written consent, will be included in the study.
The control group did not receive treatment. Patients were randomly divided into two groups.
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Settings and conduct
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This study is a pilot RCT and was conducted in Shahid Chamran Heart Center Hospital, Isfahan, Iran in 1401-1402.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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The inclusion criteria are people who have undergone radial artery angiography and then have symptoms related to radial artery occlusion (such as pain and palpable radial pulse).
The need for a therapeutic dose of anticoagulants, the use of other anticoagulants, severe symptoms of vascular occlusion that requires rapid intervention to restore the arterial channel, contraindications to the use of apixaban that include severe drug sensitivity, active clinical and pathological bleeding such as gastrointestinal and cerebral, hemostasis disorder and advanced renal failure were considered as exclusion criteria
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Intervention groups
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The patients in the study group were treated with apixaban (2.5 mg every 12 hours, orally, made by a factory) for 30 days, and after the end of the treatment period, the recovery of the artery was checked again with Doppler waves. to give For people during the study, after the second week, their medication intake will be followed up by phone call.
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Main outcome variables
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Radial artery occlusion