CLINICAL LABORATORY, cilt.60, sa.9, ss.1457-1464, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a biomarker specific to the lungs. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between clinical probability scores and the serum levels of SP-D to indicate the severity of lung injury that develops secondary to hypoxia in pulmonary embolism (PE).