Doctors usually need to run extra tests to make a diagnosis. A D-dimer assay measures the levels of a specific protein that remains in the blood after blood clots break down. It can help doctors ...

This Practice Point commentary considers whether the D-dimer assay will remain simply a tool to rule out thrombosis in symptomatic patients with SLE or whether it could eventually be used to ...

and the accuracy of a given D-dimer assay (in this study, the SimpliRED assay and IL-Test were used).

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-reviewed ...

A new study investigating D-dimer testing in patients who are at higher risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been published in ...