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D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product or small protein fragment present in the peripheral blood after fibrin is formed from fibrinogen (in the presence of thrombin) and subsequently degraded by plasminogen activators. Its name is derived from having D fragments of the fibrin protein joined by a covalently bound cross-link (factor XIII)
