Misdiagnosis of Aortic Dissection: Experience of 361 Patients

Journal of Clinical Hypertension

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 256-260

  Zhan, Sun ^a   Hong, Shen ^a   Shan Shan, Li ^a   Chen Ling, Yao ^a   Lai, Wei ^a   Dong Wei, Shi ^a   Chao Yang, Tong ^a   Xian Hong, Shu ^a   Chun Sheng, Wang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; BLURRED VISION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COUGHING; CYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATURIA; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HOARSENESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; ISCHEMIA; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG EDEMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELENA; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGURIA; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLURRED SPEECH; SPINE DISEASE; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID TUMOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859426290     PISSN: 15246175     EISSN: 17517176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7176.2012.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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