Using an age-dependent D-dimer cut-off value increases the number of older patients in whom deep vein thrombosis can be safely excluded

BACKGROUND: D-dimer testing to rule out deep vein thrombosis is less useful in older patients because of a lower specificity. An age-adjusted D-dimer cut-off value increased the proportion of older patients (>50 years) in whom pulmonary embolism could be excluded. We retrospectively validated the...

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Autori principali: Douma, Renée A., Tan, Melanie, Schutgens, Roger E.G., Bates, Shannon M., Perrier, Arnaud, Legnani, Cristina, Biesma, Douwe H., Ginsberg, Jeffrey S., Bounameaux, Henri, Palareti, Gualtiero, Carrier, Marc, Mol, Gerben C., Le Gal, Grégoire, Kamphuisen, Pieter W., Righini, Marc
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Ferrata Storti Foundation 2012
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487551/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22511491
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3324/haematol.2011.060657
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