The D-Dimer test for micro-clots
What is being tested?
"....D-dimer is one of the protein fragments produced when a blood clot gets dissolved in the body. It is normally undetectable or detectable at a very low level unless the body is forming and breaking down blood clots. Then, its level in the blood can significantly rise. This test detects D-dimer in the blood.When a blood vessel or tissue is injured and begins to bleed, a process called hemostasis is initiated by the body to create a blood clot to limit and eventually stop the bleeding. This process produces threads of a protein called fibrin, which crosslink together to form a fibrin net. That net, together with platelets, helps hold the forming blood clot in place at the site of the injury until it heals.
Once the area has had time to heal and the clot is no longer needed, the body uses an enzyme called plasmin to break the clot (thrombus) into small pieces so that it can be removed. The fragments of the disintegrating fibrin in the clot are called fibrin degradation products (FDP), which consist of variously sized pieces of crosslinked fibrin. One of the final fibrin degradation products produced is D-dimer, which can be measured in a blood sample when present. The level of D-dimer in the blood can significantly rise when there is significant formation and breakdown of fibrin clots in the body.
For a person who is at low or intermediate risk for blood clotting (thrombosis) and/or thrombotic embolism, the strength of the D-dimer test is that it can be used in a hospital emergency room setting to determine the likelihood of a clot’s presence. A negative D-dimer test (D-dimer level is below a predetermined cut-off threshold) indicates that it is highly unlikely that a thrombus is present. However, a positive D-dimer test cannot predict whether or not a clot is present. It indicates that further diagnostic procedures are required (e.g., ultrasound, CT angiography).
There are several factors and conditions associated with inappropriate blood clot formation. One of the most common is deep vein thrombosis (DVT), which involves clot formation in veins deep within the body, most frequently in the lower legs. These clots may grow very large and block blood flow in the legs, causing swelling, pain, and tissue damage. It is possible for a piece of the clot to break off and travel to other parts of the body. This “embolus” can lodge in the lungs, causing a pulmonary embolus or embolism (PE). Pulmonary embolisms from DVT affect more than 300,000 people in the U.S. each year.
While clots most commonly form in the veins of the legs, they may also form in other areas as well. Measurements of D-dimer can be used to help detect clots in any of these sites....."
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What I've read in multiple accounts is that the vaccines cause spike proteins to grow into the interior of blood vessels, which is harmless for larger vessels but can cause clotting and gumming up in capillaries and in the tiny veessels inside eyes. I do not know whether this process dies out over time or continues as long as the vaccinated person lives.
This is the most pessimistic view I've seen on the business but it may be the basic explanation for many of the horror stories I've been reading for the past year. The claim is that the D-Dimer test shows microclots in at least 62% of patients with recent covid vaccines:
https://elcolectivodeuno.wordpress.com/2021/07/21/dr-hoffe-in-62-of-those-vaccinated-there-is-evidence-of-clots-2/
Other tests apparently do not show the microclots. For starters, if I'd taken the vaccines, the first thing I'd want to do is take that D-Dimer test. If the test came back negative, I'd probably want to find something else to worry about. If it came back positive, I'd be more apt to want to start asking questions and doing some research.
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