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Articles and journal scans about D-dimer
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January 2017
Determining the cause of breathlessness – how blood testing can help
Dyspnea (alternative names: breathlessness and shortness of breath) is a common reason for individuals to seek medical help either in primary care or the hospital emergency room. The possible causes are legion, so that assessment of the patient complaining of breathlessness is a common and often difficult diagnostic...
Blood gases/acid-base
D-dimer
Troponins
Natriuretic peptide
Journal Scan
January 2016
The role of D-dimer in diagnosis of venous thromboembolism – a review
The D-dimer blood test is a clinical laboratory test that is also increasingly available at the point of care, most often the hospital emergency room. Over the past decade or so the test has become established for emergency room assessment of patients suspected of suffering deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism,...
D-dimer
Journal Scan
October 2013
Causes of increased D-dimer
D-dimers are protein products of cross-linked fibrin degradation that are present in the blood of most healthy individuals in only negligible amounts (of the order 100-200 ng/mL). As objective evidence of increased fibrinolysis, elevated blood concentration of D-dimer is by extension evidence of intravascular...
D-dimer