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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 level is ≥ 1000 ng/mL, CTPA is ordered. For those with one or more items on the modified YEARS protocol, pulmonary embolism can be excluded if the D-dimer test shows a level less than ...

D-Dimer tests were performed in 4,263 patients. A total ... Foot Surgery, a Pulmonary Embolism, and a Negligence Claim; Thrombectomy Tops Thrombolysis in Pulmonary Embolism Trial; ...

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 ...

An international systematic review and individual-patient data meta-analysis (IPDMA) from over 20,000 patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) shows that diagnostic strategies for ruling ...

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

In the entire cohort of 560 patients, the prevalence of pulmonary embolism was 17.3%, ranging from 15% to 20% across the participating hospitals. Pulmonary embolism was detected in one-quarter of ...