D-dimer testing in laboratory practice

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1256-1262

  Tripodi, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; D DIMER;

ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PROBABILITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BLOOD COAGULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 80052258129     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2011.166249     Document Type: Review

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