Treating and preventing blood clots in the leg veins.
Treating and preventing blood clots traveling to the lungs (pulmonary embolism).
Treatment of blood clots in the coronary arteries in unstable angina.
Treating blood clots blocking a peripheral artery.
Preventing more blood from clotting in the heart after a heart attack.
Prevention of deep vein thrombosis and postoperative pulmonary embolism.
It is used to maintain catheter patency.
As an anticoagulant in blood transfusions, extracorporeal circulation, hemodialysis, and laboratory samples.
Prevent blood from clotting when it is filtered through a machine during heart-lung bypass surgery.