Patrizia Fenu

Menorrhagia, Tranexamic Acid and False Negative D-Dimer in Patients with Venous Thromboembolism Case Report and Systematic Literature Review

Gianni Lorenzini, Luca Masotti, Euro Ubaldi, Annalisa Mannucci, Annamaria Bellizzi, Chiara Bini, Sandra Gori, Patrizia Fenu, Daniela Cannistraro & Alessandro Pampana · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2014

A 56 years-old woman came to our attention for abrupt onset of shortness of breath. Pulmonary embolism was firstly ruled out due to negative D-Dimer and unlikely probability. On second day, the patient presented with heavy menorrhagia and treated with tranexamic acid (TA). She in...