Biomarkers in acute aortic dissection and other aortic syndromes |
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Authors: | Ranasinghe Aaron M Bonser Robert S |
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Institution: | School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom. |
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Abstract: | Acute aortic syndromes have an incidence of >30 per million per annum and a high mortality without definitive treatment. Survival may relate to the speed of diagnosis. Although pain is the most common symptom, there is a large fraction of patients in whom the diagnosis may be mistaken or overlooked. Currently, a high index of clinical suspicion is the chief prompt that diverts a patient into a definitive algorithm of imaging investigations. Although there is no point-of-care biochemical test that can be reliably used to positively identify dissection, biomarkers are available that could accelerate the diagnostic pathway and thereby expedite treatment. |
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Keywords: | acute aortic dissection acute aortic syndrome biomarker |
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