Measurement of plasma D-dimer levels—a test more commonly used to detect blood-clotting disorders—can provide useful information when making the difficult diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), reports a study in theJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Plasma D-dimer measurement has "co...
High levels of D-dimer protein in your blood mean that you may have a blood clotting condition. Certain other conditions or medications can also cause higher than normal D-dimer levels in the blood. Your doctor will need to do further tests to find out what condition you have and where th...
Utility of plasma D-dimer levels in the diagnosis of acute aortic dissection To test the utility of plasma D-dimer determination in the diagnosis of acute aortic dissection (AAD), in particular with respect to its high negative pred... Marian Levík a,Jií Kettner a,Antonín Jabor b,... ...
A D-dimer test is done like any other blood test. A phlebotomist will take your blood sample using a routine procedure called venipuncture. The tech will wrap an elastic band around your upper arm and may ask you to make a fist to get the blood flowing. Next, they’ll clean the area...
Clopidogrel does not suppress blood markers of coagulation activation in aspirin-treated patients with non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes Blood levels of P-selectin, prothrombin fragment F1.2, D-dimer, and von Willebrand factor were measured at baseline, day 7 (or hospital discharge), ... ...
D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product, a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is so named because it contains two crosslinked D fragments of the fibrinogen protein. D-dimer concentration may be determined by a blood test to help ...
Maternal and cord blood hemostasis at delivery. ATIII, aPTT, PT and fibrinogen were measured by the clotting technique test on the Chromotimer (Behring, Marburg, Germany). D-Dimer, vWF and protein ... DM Schneider,GF V. Tempelhoff,B Herrle,... - 《Journal of Perinatal Medicine》 被引量...
Fig. 1. Whole blood D-dimer test results on basis of semi-qualitative analysis of agglutination within 5 minutes. All patients with weak or strong agglutination were considered to have positive D-dimer test results.This may be visualized as having either a weak or a strongly positive outcome,...
- 《Blood》 被引量: 383发表: 2010年 The use of D-dimer testing and impedance plethysmography in patients with clinical indications of deep vein thrombosis To prospectively test the hypothesis that a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis can be excluded in outpatients who present with clinical ...
Related to d-dimer: d-dimer testdimer 1. a compound formed by combination of two identical simpler molecules. 2. a capsomer having two structural subunits. D-dimer a fragment of fibrin that is formed as a result of fibrin degradation. A positive test for its presence in the blood is sug...