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22 and i was recently hospitalized with severe, chest pain. the doc thought it was a dissection even though the d-dimer was negative? no ct. possible?
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Doesn't make: sense. If the doc was seriously considering aortic dissection, imaging studies(e.g. CT or MRI) would have been performed to rule it out. D-dimer is usually checked if pulmonary embolism is suspected. It has a high negative predictive value for PE, so a negative D-dimer test is strong evidence that there is no PE.
Answered 3/12/2020
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