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in the context of several types of CAD presentation&#44; are associated independently with clinical and morphological markers of severity&#44; which have themselves already been identified as negative prognostic factors&#46; The association between elevated D-dimers and other prognosis markers reinforces the identification of patients who are at a higher risk of mortality and have a worse prognosis&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; the identification of D-dimers as markers of long term risk is not limited to vascular risk&#44; as demonstrated by the LIPID Study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> It involved almost 8000 patients with follow-up over 16 years and demonstrated the association between elevated levels of D-dimers and a significant and independent rise in mortality with an identified cause &#40;cardiovascular and neoplastic&#41;&#44; in addition to non-cardiovascular and non-neoplastic mortality&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is therefore evident that a variable of increased cardiovascular risk is also associated with other causes of mortality&#44; 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D-dimers in the identification of vascular risk: A good tool or just another one?
D-dímeros na identificação do risco vascular: uma boa ferramenta ou apenas mais uma?
Henrique Cyrne Carvalho
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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event&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0105"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The use of this marker together with the remaining vascular risk factors to define populations at risk requiring close monitoring and suitable therapeutic measures seems clear&#44; as D-dimers have been identified as a long-term marker of mortality and major complications in hospital and within six months following a PCI&#46; The goal of these measures is to control ischemic and residual risk&#46; Based on the results and study conditions of the ATLAS ACS 2 &#8211; TIMI 51 Trial &#40;ClinicalTrials&#46;gov number&#44; NCT00809965&#41;&#44; the use of the so-called &#8220;vascular dose&#8221; of rivaroxaban 2&#46;5 mg bid &#40;anti-factor Xa action&#41; in this elevated risk group would make sense&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0110"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a> This study assessed a population of more than 15 000 patients with stable coronary artery disease &#40;CAD&#41; seven days after PCI in ACS&#46; The indicated dose of rivaroxaban reduced the composite endpoint comprised of cardiovascular death&#44; infarction or stroke&#44; mainly at the expense of a reduction in mortality in patients with a high vascular risk score&#46; It is therefore more pertinent to propose coagulation in the pathophysiological mechanism&#44; which associated with platelet aggregation&#44; defines events that lead to cardiovascular death&#46;</p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Studies have performed to obtain optimized information on the association of other risk markers with D-dimers to identify patients at greater risk of clinical recurrence of CAD manifestations&#46; They then associated them with clinical risk scores &#40;Grace&#41;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> and morphological risk&#44; based on the severity of the coronary disease &#40;Syntax score&#41;&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a></p><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Elevated baseline D-dimers upon arrival at hospital in patients with ACSs&#44; who had undergone PCI&#44; was identified as an independent predictor of hospital mortality&#46; Use in combination with the Grace Score has to led improved prognosis performance&#44; compared to the isolated use of this score&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="par0055" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">With respect to the complexity of coronary anatomy&#44; increased D-dimer values were associated with the severity of coronary disease&#44; represented by high Syntax Score values in patients with STEMI&#44; successfully revascularized in a primary angioplasty&#46; Elevated D-dimers were also linked to more serious intracoronary thrombotic content &#40;thrombotic burden&#41; and a more frequent occurrence of acute occlusion with complete interruption of the coronary flow during primary angioplasty &#40;bailout&#41;&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> which is associated with worse prognosis&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It appears to be clear that the baseline D-dimer levels&#44; in the context of several types of CAD presentation&#44; are associated independently with clinical and morphological markers of severity&#44; which have themselves already been identified as negative prognostic factors&#46; The association between elevated D-dimers and other prognosis markers reinforces the identification of patients who are at a higher risk of mortality and have a worse prognosis&#46;</p><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">However&#44; the identification of D-dimers as markers of long term risk is not limited to vascular risk&#44; as demonstrated by the LIPID Study&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> It involved almost 8000 patients with follow-up over 16 years and demonstrated the association between elevated levels of D-dimers and a significant and independent rise in mortality with an identified cause &#40;cardiovascular and neoplastic&#41;&#44; in addition to non-cardiovascular and non-neoplastic mortality&#46;</p><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is therefore evident that a variable of increased cardiovascular risk is also associated with other causes of mortality&#44; 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