What does D-D-dimer mean?
By Michael Gray
What does D-D-dimer mean?
D-dimer is a protein fragment (small piece) that’s made when a blood clot dissolves in your body. Blood clotting is an important process that prevents you from losing too much blood when you are injured. Normally, your body will dissolve the clot once your injury has healed.
Are sharply elevated D-dimer levels a serious condition?
These results suggest that, even if sharply elevated D-dimers are a seemingly solitary finding, clinical suspic … Although D-dimer testing has a reputation for being very non-specific, an extremely elevated D-dimer is uniquely associated with severe disease, mainly including VTE, sepsis and/or cancer.
When to use adjusted D dimer cut offs?
Adjusts D-dimer cutoffs by age to help rule out VTE. Use in patients ≥50 years old presenting to emergency department as outpatients and are being worked up for PE with low to intermediate pretest probability. Do not use in high-risk patients (i.e., those who would proceed to imaging regardless of D-dimer result).
Who is Kalarel in Acquisitions Incorporated?
A human sorcerer of significant power whose malicious cult seeks to end the world. Kalarel is the primary villain of Acquisitions Incorporated: Season One. He is the leader of a cult of Shar, otherwise referred to as a death cult or cult of Orcus.
