Analysis of Patients Who Applied to Our Clinic with Aortic Dissection: A Five-year Experience

Objective: Although acute aort dissection (AAD) is quite difficult to be diagnosed in the emergency department, the mortality of it is very high. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to discuss the evidence of demographic characteristics, clinical, laboratory of the AAD patients who applied to eme...

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Published in:Meandros medical and dental journal 2017-12, Vol.18 (3), p.181-188
Main Authors: Alp, Meryem Burçin, Karakaya, Zeynep, Yavaş, Gözde Canan, Akyol, Pınar Yeşim, Topal, Fatih Esad, Payza, Umut, Bilgin, Serkan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Age
Aneurysms
Aorta
Aortic dissection
Back pain
Blood platelets
Blood pressure
Computed tomography
Coronary vessels
Echocardiography
Family medical history
Health risk assessment
Hospitals
Hypertension
Laboratories
Medical diagnosis
Mortality
Pain
Statistical analysis
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Summary:Objective: Although acute aort dissection (AAD) is quite difficult to be diagnosed in the emergency department, the mortality of it is very high. Therefore, the purpose of our study is to discuss the evidence of demographic characteristics, clinical, laboratory of the AAD patients who applied to emergency department over mortality. Materials and Methods: In our research including 73 patients with AAD diagnosed whom admitted to emergency department on January 2010-October 2015. Sex, age, presenting complaints, past medical history, arterial blood pressure, pulse, laboratory tests, transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), thoracoabdominal computerized tomography (CT), mortality and DeBakey type have been recorded on patient information form. Statistical analysis was performed in IBM SPSS Statistics Version 22.0 software package. The comparison between the two groups of data Pearson chi-square, Fisher's exact and chi-square tests were used for statistical analysis of trends. P
ISSN:2149-9063
2149-9063
DOI:10.4274/meandros.08379