Clinical significance of the levels of serum D-dimer and C reative protein in patients with pulmonary heart disease

Objective: To explore the clinical significance of D-dimer(DDR) and C reative protein(CRP) in patients with chronic pulmonary heart disease.Methods: The levels of DDR and CRP were measured in the plasma of 41 patients with chronic pulmonary heart disease and 30 healthy controls.Results: The plasma levels of DDR and CRP were significantly different between the patients with chronic pulmonary heart disease and the healthy controls(P<0.01).Conclusions: The increase of serum CRP indicates pathophysiology of pneumonia.Serum DDR reveals the patients' hypercoagulabale state and is of helps to the diagnosis of microthromb in the lung.