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Andaleb Kholmukhamedov: What’s the Most Unusual “False Positive” Trigger You’ve Seen Elevate a D-Dimer?

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Jul 5, 2026, 17:58

Andaleb Kholmukhamedov: What’s the Most Unusual “False Positive” Trigger You’ve Seen Elevate a D-Dimer?

Andaleb Kholmukhamedov, Consultant at Dialectica, shared a post on LinkedIn:

”We’ve all seen the classic medical illustrations painting D-dimer as the ultimate detective of fibrinolysis, indicative of a ‘massive’ clot breakdown. But anyone working in emergency medicine, thrombosis, or assay development knows that this particular detective has a bit of a… jumping-to-conclusions problem:

1.Presence Does Not Equal Diagnosis: A positive D-dimer doesn’t mean your patient has a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) or a Pulmonary Embolism (PE). Because of its low specificity, this enthusiastic molecule sound the alarm for anything involving fibrin turnover — recent surgery, inflammation, pregnancy, advanced age, or even a minor injury.

2. The Power of Absence: Where D-dimer truly shines is its high sensitivity.

It is the ultimate ‘rule-out’ tool. If the test is negative in a low-to-moderate-risk patient, you can confidently take DVT/PE off the table and avoid unnecessary, expensive imaging.

In short: D-dimer is an incredible tripwire, but a terrible diagnostic compass.

What’s the most unusual ‘false positive’ trigger you’ve seen elevate a D-dimer?”

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