Young adult patients with short dissection length and thrombosed false lumen without ulcer-Like projections are liable to have false-negative results of D-dimer testing for acute aortic dissection based on a study of 113 cases

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1598-1601

  Hazui, Hiroshi ^a   Nishimoto, Masayoshi ^a   Hoshiga, Masaaki ^b   Negoro, Nobuyuki ^b   Muraoka, Hideyuki ^a   Murai, Motonobu ^a   Ohishi, Yasuo ^a   Fukumoto, Hitoshi ^a   Morita, Hiroshi ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute aortic dissection; D dimer; Dissection length; Thrombosed false lumen; Ulcer like projection

Indexed keywords

D DIMER;

AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33751400018     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.1598     Document Type: Article

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