Is there a place for D-dimers in acute type A aortic dissection?

Heart

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 727-728

  Immer, Franz F ^a  

^a PSI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

AORTA DISSECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33744502865     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2005.084483     Document Type: Editorial

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