Estimation of D dimer Level among Sudanese patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome attending Elobied Cardiac Care Unit

Abstract

D dimer is a laboratory test used for assessing many diseases such as deep venous thromboembolism, cardiac diseases and cancer. Acute coronary syndrome is word wide disease and may lead to death.This prospective case-control study conducted to determine the association of D dimer with acute coronary syndrome , at CCU of Elobied teaching hospital during period from July to October 2018. Sixesty individuals were included in this study , thirty were cases and thirty were controls, 3ml of blood collected from each participant, all of them tested to D dimer by using ichromaTM. The study showed that the mean of D dimer cases was (730.87) while the mean of D dimer controls was (145.20), there was statistical significance difference between the results of cases and controls when using independent T test with p.value (0.000).D dimer level is higher in patients with acute coronary syndrome than in healthy persons.D dimer level also tested among smokers, hypertensive and diabetes patients, there was insignificance difference between smokers and non smokers, hypertensive and non hypertensive, dieabetes and healthy persons. D-dimer levels measurement should be included among the routine tests for patients complaining of chest pain.