Age-adjusted plasma D-Dimer levels in suspected acute pulmonary embolism - a retrospective, single center study.

CONCLUSIONS    YADD thresholds are characterized by high sensitivity and increased specificity when compared with CDD, thus allowing for the safe reduction of the number of CT scans. A prospective study should be conducted for further validation. PMID: 28075426 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Pol Arch Med Wewn Source Type: research