- ►annals.org [PDF] SW Rathbun, TL Whitsett, GE Raskob - Annals of internal medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians Background: All of the available diagnostic tests for deep ve- nous thrombosis
(DVT) have limitations for excluding acute recur- rent DVT. Measurement of
plasma D-dimer by using an automated quantitative assay may be useful as a ... Cited by 41 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 24 versions
- ►muhealth.org [PDF] G Le Gal, M Righini, PM Roy, O Sanchez, D … - Archives of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Med Assoc Methods We assessed the safety and usefulness of D-dimer testing in patients
with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) who had experienced a previous VTE. We
analyzed data from 2 outcome studies that enrolled 1721 consecutive ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - All 5 versions
MMW Koopman, HR Büller, JW Ten Cate - Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis, 1995 - content.karger.com After a first episode of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), 30-50% of the patients will
develop complaints suspect of recurrent DVT. Of these patients, only 20-30% do
indeed have a recurrent episode of DVT. To identify patients with a true ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
M Epiney, F Boehlen, M Boulvain, G Reber, E … - Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com Summary. Background: D-dimer (DD) measurement has proved to be very useful to
exclude venous thromboembolism (VTE) in outpatients. However, during pregnancy,
the progressive increase as well as the interindividual variations of DD ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] C Kearon, JS Ginsberg, J Douketis, AG Turpie, … - Annals of internal medicine, 2006 - Am Coll Physicians Clive Kearon, MB, PhD; Jeffrey S. Ginsberg, MD; James Douketis, MD; Alexander G.
Turpie, MB; Shannon M. Bates, MDCM; Agnes Y. Lee, MD; Mark A. Crowther, MD;
Jeffrey I. Weitz, MD; Patrick Brill-Edwards, MD; Philip Wells, MD; David R. ... Cited by 48 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
M Righini, C Goehring, H Bounameaux, A … - The American journal of medicine, 2000 - Elsevier RESULTS: The prevalence of pulmonary embolism increased progressively, from 12%
in patients <40 years of age to 44% in those ≥80 years of age. The positive
predictive value of a high clinical probability of pulmonary embolism was ... Cited by 92 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] WS Chan, S Chunilal, A Lee, M Crowther, M … - Annals of internal medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Background: D -Dimer testing is often used with compression ultra- sonography
for the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in nonpregnant patients. The D
-dimer test is highly sensitive, and a negative result can obviate the need ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
H Heijboer, LMM Jongbloets, HR Büller, AWA … - Acta radiologica(1987), 1992 - cat.inist.fr Clinical utility of real-time compression ultrasonography for diagnostic
management of patients with recurrent venous thrombosis. ... Cited by 76 - Related articles - All 3 versions
R Oudega, KGM Moons, AW Hoes - Thromb Haemost, 2005 - amuse-2.nl Summary In primary care,the physician has to decide which patients have to be
referred for further diagnostic work-up.At present,only in 20% to 30% of the
referred patients the diagnosis DVT is con- firmed. This puts a burden on ... Cited by 35 - Related articles - All 3 versions
LA Linkins, P Pasquale, S Paterson, C Kearon - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004 - archinte.highwire.org Background Despite successful treatment, deep vein thrombosis may not fully
resolve in some patients. Consequently, in patients with new symptoms in a
previously affected leg, noncompressibility on ultrasound cannot be assumed ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
