Journal of cardiology
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Journal of cardiology · Nov 2011
Factors leading to failure to diagnose acute aortic dissection in the emergency room.
Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is often missed on initial assessment. ⋯ Both diversity of symptoms and variability of the severity of symptoms, especially walk-in mode of admission lead ER physicians to miss AAD in about 1 in 6 cases of AAD. It is therefore important to keep AAD as a differential diagnosis in mind, even when patients present with mild enough symptoms that allow them to walk into the ER.