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Age-Adjusted D-dimer: Is it Ready for Prime Time?

Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening entity affecting up to 900,000 individuals a year. Unfortunately, D-dimer levels increase with age decreasing the yield of the test. In order to increase the specificity safely, Douma et al. performed a retrospective analysis to derive age-adjusted D-dimer c...