DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM BASED ON MEASURING BLOOD SERUM INTERLEUKIN-8

摘要

FIELD: medicine.;SUBSTANCE: early diagnostic technique for pulmonary thromboembolism consists in the fact that if the patient shows any clinical signs indicative of the probability of pulmonary thromboembolism, blood serum fibrin D-dimer is supposed to be measured; if the fibrin D-dimer is less than 0.5 mg/l, a suspected case of pulmonary thromboembolism is cleared of, whereat blood serum fibrin D-dimer of 0.5 mg/l and more requires measuring blood serum interleukin-8 additionally by enzyme immunoassay, and if the measured concentration is 21.3 pg/ml and more, pulmonary thromboembolism is diagnosed.;EFFECT: more accurate and informative diagnostics.;2 tbl