D-dimer is helpful for differentiating acute aortic dissection and acute pulmonary embolism from acute myocardial infarction

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-127

  Sakamoto, Kazuo ^a   Yamamoto, Yusuke ^a   Okamatsu, Hideharu ^a   Okabe, Masanori ^a  

^a SAISEIKAI FUKUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute chest pain; References

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; D DIMER; HEPARIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

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