Get The Best Quality D-Dimer Test Option in Kolkata – AccuHealth Diagnostics 

A D-dimer test is a blood test. This test is used in order to rule out the presence of a serious blood clot.

Your body takes certain steps to make your blood clump up whenever you get a cut anywhere in your body. It is a normal part of healing. Without this healing process, you would keep bleeding constantly. This will be a major problem to deal with.

You don’t need the clot once your bleeding stops. Your body will then take a series of steps in the other direction and it will break the clot down.

At the end of this process, you will have some leftover substances floating around in your blood.

One of these leftovers is D-dimer which is a part of a protein. Normally, it goes away in a little to no time. But under certain circumstances like a major clot like deep vein thrombosis or DVT, your D-dimer levels can get high.

With DVT, you can have a deep clot. This can be in one of your veins and it usually happens in your legs and can eventually lead to serious repercussions.

A D-dimer test in Kolkata is provided by all diagnostic centres and healthcare service providers.

Why Do You Need a D-Dimer Test? 

Your doctor may use this test in order to check the level of D-dimer in your blood. This is to figure out if there is a clot in your blood. This test is also known by the below names:

• Fragment D-dimer test
• Fibrin degradation fragment test

When Do You Need a D-Dimer Test?

There are certain tests that help you know for sure that a certain disease or condition is causing your symptoms. There are some other tests that are more useful in order to rule out a certain condition as the cause. The D-dimer test can be used in both of these situations. This is based on what your doctor is looking for.

To rule out DVT and other conditions: The D-dimer test is considered as the most useful one when your doctor thinks something else is causing your symptoms and wants to rule out the below causes:

• DVT, which may cause swelling, pain, or redness in your leg
• Pulmonary embolism, or PE, a blood clot that has traveled to your lungs thereby leading to breathing trouble, fast heartbeat, chest pain , accompanied by coughing

The test in this case is only helpful if you are not too likely to have blood clots. A positive D-dimer test doesn’t necessarily infer a clotting in your blood. Other tests will be needed in order to confirm that. If your odds of having a clot are higher, there will be different tests that will be needed. The possibilities that you have a clot are higher with:

• Antiphospholipid syndrome, which is an immune system disease
• Clotting diseases that you’re born with
• Major surgery, such as a knee replacement
• Major injury, such as a broken leg
• Long periods of sitting or lying down. This may include a long plane ride or a long hospital stay
• Pregnancy or if you have become a mother recently
• Some cancers

To test for Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation:

D-dimer can also be used to help test for disseminated intravascular coagulation or DIC. In this disease, blood clots form in small blood vessels throughout your body and bleeding is also caused. This disease can be life-threatening.

It’s also used to check the effectiveness of the DIC treatment. If the D-dimer levels drop, it indicates that the treatment is progressing in a positive direction.

If you are looking for a D-Dimer test in Kolkata, you can get in touch with AccuHealth Diagnostics. Accuhealth is a chain of reputed diagnostic centres based out of Baruipur, Kasba, Barasat along with a blood collection centre in Sonarpur. We also provide home collection facilities for all our customers. Doctors all over Kolkata recommend us for the accuracy of our test reports. We deliver all the diagnostic test reports at the earliest to help our customers carry on with their further treatment procedure seamlessly.