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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 18, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(9):1207; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn118
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Plasma D-dimer in the diagnosis of acute aortic dissection

Gian Luca Salvagno

Sezione di Chimica Clinica
Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche
Università degli Studi di Verona
Verona
Italy

Giovanni Targher

Sezione di Endocrinologia e Malattie del Metabolismo
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche
Università di Verona
Verona
Italy

Massimo Franchini

Servizio di Immunoematologia e Trasfusione
Azienda Ospedaliera di Verona
Verona
Italy

Giuseppe Lippi

Sezione di Chimica Clinica
Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche
Università degli Studi di Verona
Verona
Italy
Tel: +39 045 812 4308
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Email: ulippi@tin.it/ giuseppe.lippi@univr.it

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We read with interest the recent article by Sodeck et al., who concluded that D-dimer testing is a reliable and sensitive diagnostic marker for exclusion of acute aortic dissection (AAD). In particular, an exclusion criterion is suggested, based on D-dimer . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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