Association Between D-Dimer Level and In-Hospital Death of Pulmonary Embolism Patients

• Main Authors: Zi-Kai Song PhD (Author), Haidi Wu MD (Author), Xiaoyan Xu MD (Author), Hongyan Cao MD (Author), Qi Wei MD (Author), Junfeng Wang MD (Author), Xingwen Wang (Author), Xue Zhang (Author), Minglong Tang (Author), Shuo Yang (Author), Yang Liu (Author), Ling Qin PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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To investigate whether D-dimer level could predict pulmonary embolism (PE) severity and in-hospital death, a total of 272 patients with PE were divided into a survival group (n = 249) and a death group (n = 23). Comparisons of patient characteristics between the 2 groups were performed using Mann-Wh...