Background: Aortic dissection, particularly acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD), is a life-threatening cardiovascular emergency with alarmingly high mortality rates globally. Despite advancements ...

Laboratory tests: D-dimer, fibrinogen levels ... Disease diagnosis and treatment: Aortic dissection staging (Stanford staging), whether or not the patient received surgical treatment. Prognosis and ...

The abdominal aorta is a large artery in your belly that carries blood from the heart to the lower part of the body. In early fetal development, it forms from two smaller blood vessels, called the ...

Despite extensive advancements, research on markers of severity in CHF remains scarce. Objectives: This study aims to evaluate procalcitonin (PCT) and D-dimer as severity predictors in CHF. Methods: ...

Marie Anne August, 45, was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called aortic dissection Jam Press/Marie-Anne August Marie Anne August felt a “bubbling” in her chest while at the gym ...

Department of Endocrinology, Centre for Leading Medicine and Advanced Technologies of IHM, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Division of Life ...

In 2010, the first practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of thoracic aortic disease were jointly published by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart ...

Abstract: Aortic Dissection (AD) is a life-threatening disease that can be rapidly screened by using deep learning methods. However, deep learning model training requires a large amount of manual ...

Then, patients were randomized to either D-dimer testing or no D-dimer testing (controls). In the D-dimer group, patients with low clinical probabilities and negative D-dimer tests underwent no ...