Session Details

D-Dimer Diagnostics in Clinical Practice

Wednesday, 24 March 2004 08:30 -10:00

Co-Chair Kees Kluft TNO Prevention and HealthThe Netherlands
Co-Chair Pierre A Toulon Hopital Cochin, Laboratoire d'HematologieFrance

D-dimer in the Exclusion of Acute Chromboembolic Events: Problem Identification and Structure of the Consensus Development Meeting
  • Kees Kluft, TNO Prevention and Health, The Netherlands
  • Value of D-dimer in Excluding Thrombosis in Patients with Clinically Suspected Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
  • M Söhne, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Report on Analytical Consensus. Summary of Issues Discussed and Decided with Respect to the Analytical Problems and Solutions of D-Dimer Testing
  • P Meijer, TNO Prevention and Health, The Netherlands
  • A Simple Pretest Clinical Probability Model and the IL D-dimer for the Exclusion of Pulmonary Embolism: An Outcome Study in the Emergency Department of a Tertiary Referral Centre
  • Prof TE Gan, Monash Medical Centre, Australia
  • D-dimer in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism in the Elderly
  • Dr Pierre A Toulon, Laboratoire d'Hematologie, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France
  • Usefulness of a New Rapid Qualitative Solid-phase immuno-chromatography Assay for D-dimer (Simplify D-dimer) in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism. Comparison with Two Quantitative Assays
  • Dr Pierre A Toulon, Laboratoire d'Hématologie, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France