Fact check - Patients who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 do not need to undergo routine D-dimer testing.

Overreliance on D-dimer testing and similarity to other conditions may mean pulmonary embolism or venous thromboembolism is missed in pregnant women.

A D-dimer screening test may be used if a healthcare provider is concerned about deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism in the lung, stroke, or other conditions linked to blood clots. A negative ...

Fibrin degradation products (FDPs) — also called fibrin split products — are small pieces of protein that stay in your blood when a blood clot dissolves inside your body. Doctors can test for the ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey A Kline, Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; jefkline{at}iu.edu Background We sought to measure the ...

To investigate the ability of the D-dimer test to rule out a diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients treated in hospital outpatient and accident and emergency (A&E) departments.

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be ...

Although D-dimer results within a typical range can rule out pulmonary embolism, high results alone can’t diagnose this condition. Doctors usually need to run extra tests to make a diagnosis. A ...

A new study investigating D-dimer testing in patients who are at higher risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been published in the February issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed ...

New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System is collaborating with a startup company called Dimer Health that is using technology to fill the clinical care gaps that exist for patients after a hospital ...

Objective Recent studies suggest that combinations of clinical probability assessment (the YEARS algorithm or Geneva score) and D-dimer can safely rule out suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in ...