D-dimer to rule out pulmonary embolism in renal insufficiency

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 343-347

  Lindner, Gregor ^a   Funk, Georg Christian ^b   Pfortmueller, Carmen A ^a   Leichtle, Alexander B ^a   Fiedler, Georg M ^a   Schwarz, Christoph ^c   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a   Puig, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b OTTO WAGNER HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

CT angiography; D dimer; Emergency; Pulmonary embolism; Renal insufficiency

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; D DIMER; IOBITRIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHIC INJECTOR; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY COLLABORATION FORMULA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENEVA SCORE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CT ANGIOGRAPHY; D-DIMER; EMERGENCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY;

AGED; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84897836828     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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