Acute aortic dissection - Vascular emergency with numerous pitfalls

Vasa - Journal of Vascular Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-59

  Von Bierbrauer, Axel F G ^a,c   Dilger, M ^a   Fink, T ^b  

^a Neunkirchen Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^b DR HORST SCHMIDT KLINIKEN   (Germany)

^c Abteilung Innere Medizin Städtisches Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Aortic syndrome; Chest pain; Marfan syndrome; Vascular surgery

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; D DIMER; DICLOFENAC; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; TROPONIN I;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERIAL GAS; AUTOPSY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BACK PAIN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTOGRAPHY; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 40349100254     PISSN: 03011526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0301-1526.37.1.53     Document Type: Review

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