Simple and useful tests for discriminating between acute aortic dissection of the ascending aorta and acute myocardial infarction in the emergency setting

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 677-682

  Hazui, Hiroshi ^a   Fukumoto, Hitoshi ^a   Negoro, Nobuyuki ^b   Hoshiga, Masaaki ^b   Muraoka, Hideyuki ^a   Nishimoto, Masayoshi ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^a   Hanafusa, Toshiaki ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; Acute myocardial infarction; Coronary reperfusion therapy; D dimer; Plain chest radiography

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY REPERFUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM MEDIASTINUM TO THORAX RATIO; MEASUREMENT; MEDIASTINUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 20444422251     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.677     Document Type: Article

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