D-dimer value in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism—may it exclude only? | Zendy

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D-dimer value in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism—may it exclude only?

Author(s) -

Magdalena Sikora-Skrabaka,

Damian Skrabaka,

Paolo Ruggeri,

Gaetano Caramori,

Szymon Skoczyński,

Adam Barczyk

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

journal of thoracic disease

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 2077-6624

pISSN - 2072-1439

DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2019.02.88

Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary embolism , d dimer , value (mathematics) , intensive care medicine , computer science , machine learning

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the third most common cause of death for cardiovascular diseases in Europe. Quick PE diagnosis is therefore crucial for prognosis improvement. It is critical to have suitable screening tests both to exclude PE as well to select patient with highest likelihood of PE occurrence. Currently D-dimer test is accepted as important tool useful to exclude PE in low risk patients. Our goal was to assess the D-dimer test positive prognostic value.

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