Open AccessAssessment of the current D-dimer cutoff point in pulmonary embolism workup at a single institution: Retrospective study
Author(s) -
Sulaiman Alhassan,
Eric Bihler,
Kaushal Patel,
S Lavudi,
Matthew D. Young,
Marvin Balaan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of postgraduate medicine/journal of postgraduate medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.405
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 0972-2823
pISSN - 0022-3859
DOI - 10.4103/jpgm.jpgm_217_17
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary embolism , d dimer , retrospective cohort study , cutoff , radiology , surgery , quantum mechanics , physics
The currently used D-dimer (DD) cutoff point is associated with a large number of negative CT-pulmonary angiographies (CTPA). We hypothesized presence of deficiency in the current cutoff and a need to look for a better DD threshold.