The American journal of emergency medicine
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Letter Multicenter Study
Epidemiology of and risk factors for iliopsoas abscess in a large community-based study.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
D-dimer levels in VTE patients with distal and proximal clots.
There is growing evidence that venous thromboembolism (VTE) patients with distal clots (distal calf deep vein thrombosis [DVT] and sub-segmental pulmonary embolism [PE]) may not routinely benefit from anticoagulation. We compared the D-dimer levels in VTE patients with distal and proximal clots. ⋯ VTE patients with proximal clots had higher D-dimer levels than patients with distal clots. However, D-dimer levels cannot be used alone to discriminate between VTE patients with distal or proximal clots.