Last update June 4, 2024
Likely Compatibility
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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Argatroban belongs to this group or family:
Variable | Value | Unit |
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Oral Bioavail. | ≈ 0 | % |
Molecular weight | 509 | daltons |
Protein Binding | 54 | % |
VD | 0.17 | l/Kg |
pKa | 3.06 | - |
Tmax | 1 - 3 | hours |
T½ | 0.6 - 0.9 | hours |
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Argatroban is a synthetic direct thrombin inhibitor with anticoagulant and antiplatelet activity used for the prevention and treatment of heparin-related thrombosis. Intravenous administration.
At the time of the last update, we found no published data on its excretion in breast milk.
Being a tripeptide or peptidomimetic compound derived from L-Arginine, it has zero oral bioavailability due to poor enteral absorption, since, due to its protein nature, it is degraded in the gastrointestinal tract, not being absorbed and to presystemic hepatic extraction (Hauptmann 2002), which hinders its passage to infant plasma from ingested breast milk.
Its short half-life allows minimizing risks, waiting 3-4 hours until breastfeeding is resumed.