(HealthDay)—Use of D-dimer levels to exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) has limited clinical utility and may be inappropriate in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, many of whom have increased ...

Study: Diagnostic accuracy of age-adjusted D-dimer for pulmonary embolism among Emergency Department patients with suspected SARS-COV-2: A Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response ...

Adapted D-dimer thresholds safe and efficient for ruling out acute pulmonary embolism, even in high-risk patients Embargoed News from Annals of Internal Medicine ...

All COVID-19 patients with CTPA evidence of pulmonary embolism had D-dimer levels of 0.05 μg/mL or greater, as did the majority (91.2%) of patients without CTPA evidence of pulmonary embolism.

If the D-dimer assay and multidetector-row CT had been the only tests used to rule out pulmonary embolism and ultrasonography had not been performed, the overall three-month risk of ...

For patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, diagnostic strategies to rule out PE that apply adapted D-dimer thresholds were safe and efficient, even in high-risk patients.Researchers reported ...

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 ...

If the patient is clinically likely to have pulmonary embolism or has a positive D-dimer test, they need a CT scan, but this can normally be done within 24 hours, so a clinical decision can be ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) diagnostic strategy using a higher D-dimer threshold under the so-called YEARS rule combined with age adjustment for selected patients who couldn't be ruled out by PE ...

When evaluating patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism (PE), physicians should stratify patients into groups for whom different diagnostic strategies are appropriate, the American ...

Combining the Wells rule and a POC yielded a sensitivity and specificity of 94.5% and 51.0%, respectively, which when combined with a quantitative test changed to 98.6% and 47.2%, respectively.

Since its introduction to clinical use, the D-dimer test for deep venous thrombosis/pulmonary embolism has been a blessing and a curse. What is the current thinking regarding D-dimer use in ...