Pulmonary Embolism

Dead-Space And D-Dimer Assays Are Useful For Exclusion

Published in Blood Weekly, April 5th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - D-dimer levels and alveolar dead-space measurements can be used to rule out pulmonary embolisms, say researchers in North Carolina.

J.A. Kline and colleagues at Carolinas Medical Center described their comparison of pulmonary embolism assays in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

They found that emergency room patients with normal D-dimer levels and alveolar dead-space fractions had a less than 1% chance of having a pulmonary embolism.

Moreover, of the 64 patients who did have pulmonary embolisms, 63 had abnormal results on one or both tests, giving the combination...

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