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Does an algorithm combining atrial fibrillation and D-dimer levels accurately diagnose cardioembolic cerebral infarction in patients with acute cerebral infarction?
Does an algorithm combining atrial fibrillation and D-dimer levels accurately diagnose cardioembolic cerebral infarction in patients with acute cerebral infarction?
An algorithm combining atrial fibrillation status and D-dimer levels provides high sensitivity and negative predictive value for identifying cardioembolic sources of acute cerebral infarction.
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May aid ruling out cardioembolic source via high NPV; hypothesis-generating in cohort data and requires RCT confirmation.
Dougu et al. (2008) studied this question.
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