Plasma concentrations of D-dimer predict mortality in acute type A aortic dissection

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 836-837

  Weber, Thomas ^a   Rammer, M ^a   Auer, J ^a   Maurer, E ^a   Aspock G ^a   Eber, B ^a  

^a Klinikum Kreuzschwestern Wels   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33744455704     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.072959     Document Type: Article

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