Cocaine-related acute aortic dissection: Patient demographics and clinical outcomes

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1131-1134

  Singh, Sarabjeet ^a   Trivedi, Atul ^a   Adhikari, Tara ^a   Molnar, Janos ^a   Arora, Rohit ^a   Khosla, Sandeep ^b  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Clinical outcome; Cocaine; Mortality

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA ANEURYSM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38549105070     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(07)70883-8     Document Type: Article

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