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Background: Widespread use of D-dimer in recent years has led to the development of a number of new fully automated quantitative D-dimer assays.

Methods: We evaluated the analytical performance of the particle-enhanced immunoturbidimetric assay Innovance D-DIMER (Siemens Medical Solutions) on the Behring Coagulation System (BCS) analyzer.

Results: Within-run coefficients of variation (CVs) for samples with low, borderline, slightly, and extremely increased D-dimer concentrations were 2.1%–5.5%, whereas between-run CVs for control samples with low and extremely increased D-dimer were 5.5%–8.4%. The assay exhibited good linearity in the working range between 0.17 mg/L and 5.45 mg/L fibrinogen equivalent units (FEU), with the lower limit of detection of 0.099 mg/L FEU. The upper reference value determined in 40 plasma samples from healthy volunteers was 0.495 mg/L FEU. The results …