Concentration of D-dimers in healthy cats and sick cats with and without disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 842-846

  Tholen, Inger ^a   Weingart, Christiane ^a   Kohn, Barbara ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CAT; CAT DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BLOOD COAGULATION TESTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; COMORBIDITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; LATEX FIXATION TESTS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349308289     PISSN: 1098612X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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