- ►annals.org [PDF] C Kearon, JS Ginsberg, J Douketis, M Crowther, … - Annals of internal medicine, 2001 - Am Coll Physicians Background: When deep venous thrombosis is suspected, ob- jective testing is
required to confirm or refute the diagnosis. Objective: To determine whether the
combination of a low clinical suspicion and a normal D -dimer result rules ... Cited by 171 - Related articles - All 4 versions
RA Kraaijenhagen, F Piovella, E Bernardi, F … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002 - archinte.highwire.org Methods At presentation, consecutive outpatients with suspected thrombosis
underwent independent assessment by means of ultrasonography of the proximal
veins, a whole-blood D-dimer assay, and a pretest clinical model. Patients ... Cited by 112 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►ahajournals.org REG Schutgens, P Ackermark, F Haas, HK … - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— Patients with a normal D-dimer concentration (<500 fibrin
equivalent units [FEU] µg/L) and a non-high probability score (<3) had no
further testing. Patients with a normal D-dimer concentration and a high ... Cited by 114 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 12 versions
- ►bmj.com E Bernardi, P Prandoni, AWA Lensing, G … - British Medical Journal, 1998 - bmj.com D-dimer is a fragment specific to the degradation of fibrin. Several studies
have shown its high sensitivity, moderate specificity, and high negative
predictive value for suspected deep vein thrombosis. 8-13 The high ... Cited by 182 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
S Janes, N Ashford - British journal of haematology, 2001 - interscience.wiley.com A simplified, robust, clinical assessment, used in conjunction with a d-dimer
assay, has been developed to identify patients with a low risk of deep vein
thrombosis. These patients did not undergo radiological examination. The ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►musc.edu [PDF] SM Bates, C Kearon, M Crowther, L Linkins, … - Annals of internal medicine, 2003 - Am Coll Physicians A Diagnostic Strategy Involving a Quantitative Latex D-Dimer Assay ... Shannon
M. Bates, MDCM; Clive Kearon, MB, PhD; Mark Crowther, MD, MSc; Lori Linkins, MD;
Martin O'Donnell, MB; Jim Douketis, MD; Agnes YY Lee, MD; Jeffrey I. Weitz, ... Cited by 100 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
F Van der Graaf, H Van den Borne, M Van … - Thrombosis and haemostasis, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov In a direct assay comparison we evaluated the diagnostic performance of 10 novel
D-Dimer assays for the exclusion of deep venous thrombosis (DVT). In addition, 3
conventional ELISA D-Dimer assays were included as reference tests. The ... Cited by 117 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
DR Anderson, MJ Kovacs, G Kovacs, I Stiell, M … - Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2003 - interscience.wiley.com Summary. Suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common problem facing
emergency physicians. Timely diagnostic testing must be performed to accurately
identify patients with DVT. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ... Cited by 83 - Related articles - All 3 versions
AF Lennox, KT Delis, S Serunkuma, ZA Zarka … - Journal of Vascular Surgery, 1999 - Elsevier Purpose: The clinical diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is unreliable in
more than 50% of cases, and, in recent years, plasma D-dimer assays have been
used to predict the presence of DVT with high sensitivity and negative ... Cited by 79 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
LW Tick, E Ton, T van Voorthuizen, MMC … - The American journal of medicine, 2002 - Elsevier Of the 280 patients (35%) with a low clinical probability, 30 (11%) had an
abnormal initial ultrasonography and were treated. Of the other 250 untreated
patients with low clinical probability and a normal ultrasonography, 5 (2%; ... Cited by 57 - Related articles - All 10 versions
