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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Trauma. 2010 May;68(5):1072–1077. doi: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181d7a6f2

TABLE 4.

Analysis of Proposed D-Dimer Cut-Off to Predict TBI in Patient Subsets

D-Dimer (pg/μl)
<500 ≥500
Patients with GCS 13–15 p < 0.001
 No TBI 30 39
 TBI 1* 27
Patients with GCS 15 p = 0.004
 No TBI 23 32
 TBI 1* 18
*

Patient had a small single-slice intracerebral hemorrhage versus antecedent calcification on head CT.