Many causes: Elevated concentrations of plasma D-dimer can be caused by many conditions to include arterial (stroke, atrial fib, etc) or venous blood clots (DVT), pulmonary embolism, infection (sepsis/ inflammatory response), normal pregnancy, pre/eclampsia, malignancy, surgery, tissue necrosis, congestive heart failure, liver disease, intravascular coagulation.
Media-fill testing (also called aseptic manipulation testing) is performed to measure the ability of procedures, personnel and equipment to successfully produce a sterile end product. This test is a simulation of the actual compounding taking place in a facility.
MIL Medium is used to test for motility, lysine-decarboxylation, lysine-deamination and indole production. MIL Media gives equivalent reactions to those obtained by traditional single tube tests (i.e. Moeller's Lysine, Motility Test Medium). These tests are useful in differentiating within the Enterobacteriaceae.