Elevated D-dimer concentration identifies patients with incomplete recanalization of pulmonary artery thromboemboli despite 6 months anticoagulation after the first episode of acute pulmonary embolism

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-25

  Kaczyńska, Anna ^a   Kostrubiec, Maciej ^a   Pacho, Ryszard ^a   Kunikowska, Jolanta ^a   Pruszczyk, Piotr ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary embolism; D dimer; Residual thrombi

Indexed keywords

ACENOCUMAROL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; D DIMER; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ACENOCOUMAROL; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 42649085735     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2007.08.020     Document Type: Article

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