Patients who have suffered from a first episode of unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) have an eight times higher risk of recurrence if they stop treatment after repeated negative D-dimer tests, ...

(HealthDay News) — Low cut-off levels used in the D-Dimer-Ultrasonography in Combination Italian Study (DULCIS) resulted in half the recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) events that would have ...

A screening blood test originally validated in seriously ill patients without COVID-19 is still clinically useful for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus, a ...

A D-dimer test measures a protein fragment that remains in the blood after blood clots break down. It can help diagnose clotting conditions such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), ...

Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the Western world. Because of the low specificity and sensitivity of the d-dimer test, all pregnant women with suspected pulmonary ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. The plasma D-dimer assay has been used, along with clinical prediction scores, to rule out ...

—Can an age-adjusted cutoff level for D-dimer enable clinicians to safely rule out deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in some adults? That was the question at the core of a multicenter, multinational, ...

Bologna 8 April 2022 - Patients who have suffered from a first episode of unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) have an eight times higher risk of recurrence if they stop treatment after repeated ...