mesilate

plural mesilates · alternative UK US mesylate

1. medicineA salt or ester of an acid CH₄O₃S used especially in pharmaceutical preparations.

   When nafamostat mesilate (SK Chemicals Life Science Biz., Seoul, Korea licensed by Torii Pharmaceutical Co., LTD, Tokyo, Japan) was used for anticoagulation during the ECMO, the maintenance dose was held at 0.4–1.5 mg/kg/h to maintain a partial thromboplastin time of 60–80 s [ 12 ].

   2015 August 17, Kun Il Kim et al., “The pre-ECMO simplified acute physiology score II as a predictor for mortality in patients with initiation ECMO support at the emergency department for acute circulatory and/or respiratory failure: a retrospective study”, in Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, volume 23, →DOI

   Synonyms: methanesulfonate