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Coimbra&#44; Portugal&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Director&#58; Armando Carvalho&#44; PhD&#44; MD&#46;</p><a name="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Disclosure</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">Absence of financial support and off-label or investigational use&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Absence of any conflict of interest for all of the authors&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Corresponding author&#46; Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra Centro Hospitalar e Universit&#225;rio de Coimbra&#44; Praceta Prof&#46; Mota Pinto&#44; 3000-075 Coimbra&#44; Portugal&#44; Tel&#46;&#58; &#43;351 91 508 29 01&#46; Joana&#95;Duarte&#95;17&#64;hotmail&#46;com</p>"
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Prognostic value of plasma D-dimer level in adults with community-acquired pneumonia: A prospective study
Joana Clemente Duartea,
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, Ana Tavares e Castroa, Raquel Silvab, Lurdes Correiab, Adélia Simãob, Armando Carvalhob
a Pulmonology Unit, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
b Internal Medicine Unit, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal and University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine
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which is consistent with previous findings&#44; as published by Snijders et al&#46;<a href="&#35;bib13" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> In fact&#44; the addition of D-dimer has slightly increased the performance of CURB-65&#44; concerning the severity of CAP&#46; On the other hand&#44; no correlation was found with PSI score&#44; which contradicts results from other studies&#44; such as Ribelles et al&#46;<a href="&#35;bib12" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The relationship between DD and mortality was also assessed&#46; The area under the curve &#40;AUC&#41; of the receiver operating characteristic &#40;ROC&#41; was used to calculate the mortality predictive value&#46; DD and PSI score showed a low mortality predictive value but&#44; on the other hand&#44; CURB 65 and addition of DD levels to CURB 65 had a substantial positive predictive value &#40;<a href="&#35;f0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs">Figure 1</a>&#41;&#46;</p><a name="f0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><p class="elsevierStylePara"><img src="320v21n04-90433952fig1.jpg" alt="Receiver operating characteristic curves for CURB-65 &#40;dotted spaced line&#58; 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Ribelles et al&#46; <a href="&#35;bib12" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> found a strong correlation between mortality rates and DD in CAP&#44; while Kollef et al&#46; <a href="&#35;bib14" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> demonstrated that increased DD were associated with worse clinical outcomes&#46; This was not confirmed by our study&#44; since we did not find a significant correlation between DD levels of patients who died and those who showed overall improvement&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In conclusion&#44; in our study&#44; DD did not exhibit prognostic value in adult patients with CAP&#44; despite multiple comorbidities&#44; and also did not correlate with the severity of the disease&#44; radiological extent and in-hospital mortality rates&#46;</p><a name="sec0005" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Institution at which work was performed</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">Internal Medicine Unit - Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra&#8211;Centro Hospitalar e Universit&#225;rio de Coimbra&#44; Coimbra&#44; Portugal&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Director&#58; Armando Carvalho&#44; PhD&#44; MD&#46;</p><a name="sec0010" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"></a><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Disclosure</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">Absence of financial support and off-label or investigational use&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Absence of any conflict of interest for all of the authors&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Corresponding author&#46; Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra Centro Hospitalar e Universit&#225;rio de Coimbra&#44; Praceta Prof&#46; Mota Pinto&#44; 3000-075 Coimbra&#44; Portugal&#44; Tel&#46;&#58; &#43;351 91 508 29 01&#46; Joana&#95;Duarte&#95;17&#64;hotmail&#46;com</p>"
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