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D-dimer trends in ECMO patients: don’t shoot the messenger

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  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School and Member of the German Centre for Lung Research, Biomedical Research in End-Stage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Hannover, Germany

    Benjamin Seeliger

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Christian Bode

  3. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Shahzad Shaefi

  4. Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

    Daniel A. Hofmaenner & Sascha David

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Seeliger, B., Bode, C., Shaefi, S. et al. D-dimer trends in ECMO patients: don’t shoot the messenger. Intensive Care Med 49, 1563–1564 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07258-7

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