Correlates of delayed recognition and treatment of acute type a aortic dissection: The international registry of acute aortic dissection (IRAD)

Circulation

Volumn 124, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1911-1918

  Harris, Kevin M ^a   Strauss, Craig E ^a,b   Eagle, Kim A ^c   Hirsch, Alan T ^b   Isselbacher, Eric M ^d   Tsai, Thomas T ^e   Shiran, Hadas ^c   Fattori, Rossella ^f   Evangelista, Arturo ^g   Cooper, Jeanna V ^c   Montgomery, Daniel G ^c   Froehlich, James B ^c   Nienaber, Christoph A ^h  

^a MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

aneurysm; aorta; aortic; diagnosis; imaging; surgery; thoracic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGISTER; SYMPTOM; THERAPY DELAY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES;

EID: 80255141917     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.006320     Document Type: Article

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