DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM BASED ON MEASURING BLOOD SERUM INTERLEUKIN-8 Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC G01N33/68 

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.

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