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We also analysed gender-specific differences in patients with and without dilatation of the pulmonal trunk.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Material and methods<\/jats:title>A total of 100 acute care patients (50 men and 50 women) with positive thromboembolic multiple detector computed tomography of the thorax, performed on two modern CT scanners, were retrospectively studied. All thoracic CTs were evaluated by two expert radiologists, with attention paid to the diameter of the pulmonary trunk and the correlation of D-dimer level with the uni-or bilateralism of the lesions. We also analysed sex-specific correlations. All patients underwent multislice computed tomography-examination after applying 70 ml iodinated non-ionic contrast media. Graphpad Prism 8.1.1 software was used for statistical data.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>The \u201cstrongest\u201d weak correlation resulted between D-dimer levels and the axial diameter of the pulmonal trunk. Considering the correlation between the axial diameter of the pulmonal trunk and gender-related distributions, we found that female patients had higher axial diameters than men. Another weak relationship, almost zero, was found between the D-dimer level and gender. Regarding the correlation between the uni- or bilateralism of thromboembolism and the D-dimer levels, we also found a weak correlation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions<\/jats:title>This retrospective study showed that D-dimer levels, the diameter of the pulmonal trunk, the location, and gender-related distributions have almost no correlation and are not significantly predictive in imaging.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.5114\/pjr.2019.88330","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,10,11]],"date-time":"2019-10-11T22:48:31Z","timestamp":1570834111000},"page":"347-352","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Correlation of acute pulmonal embolism with D-dimer levels and the diameter of the pulmonary trunk in thoracic multislice computed tomography. 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