Diagnostic and prognostic value of circulating D-Dimers in patients with acute aortic dissection

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1358-1364

  Ohlmann, Patrick ^a   Faure, Antoine ^a   Morel, Olivier ^a   Petit, Hélène ^a   Kabbaj, Hasna ^a   Meyer, Nicolas ^a   Cheneau, Edouard ^a   Jesel, Laurence ^a   Epailly, Eric ^a   Desprez, Dominique ^a   Grunebaum, Lelia ^a   Schneider, Francis ^a   Roul, Gerald ^a   Mazzucotteli, Jean Philippe ^a   Eisenmann, Bernard ^a   Bareiss, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; D Dimer; Diagnostic; Mortality

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; TROPONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT; FIBRIN FRAGMENT D;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA ANEURYSM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646589971     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000216686.72457.EC     Document Type: Article

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