After Alexanderâs death his Empire was divided among his four generals (known in Latin as the Diadochi, the name by which they are still referenced, from the Greek, Diadokhoi, meaning successors): Lysimachus, Cassander, Ptolemy and Seleucus.
It is generally recognized that POCT is more expensive on a unit cost basis than central laboratory testing. In the case of the Biosite D-dimer, the unit cost, including reagents, labor, quality control, and calibration, is approximately $23.92 per test. The VIDAS D-dimer cost is approximately $20.92 per test, including labor, supplies, and specimen processing.
They defined the D-dimer cutoff for further evaluation as age multiplied by 10 in patients 50 years and older (e.g., in a 78-year-old patient, the age-adjusted cutoff would be 780 Âµg/L). A cutoff of 500 Âµg/L was retained for patients younger than 50 years.