D-Dimer Levels are Significantly Increased in Blood Taken from Varicose Veins Compared with Antecubital Blood from the Same Patient

Angiology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 882-888

  Lattimer, Christopher R ^a   Kalodiki, Evi ^a,b   Geroulakos, George ^a   Syed, Daneyal ^b   Hoppensteadt, Debra ^b   Fareed, Jawed ^b  

^a EALING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

ACDR; ankle cubital d dimer ratio; chronic venous insufficiency; d dimer; fibrinolysis; varicose veins

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTECUBITAL FOSSA; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LIPODERMATOSCLEROSIS; MALE; ULCER; VARICOSIS; VENOUS BLOOD; VERY ELDERLY; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PUNCTURE; UPREGULATION; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULARIZATION; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUNCTURES; UP-REGULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941127241     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: 19401574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003319714565168     Document Type: Article

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