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Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Medical Informatics

Background:

  • Acute aortic dissection (AAD) presents a high in-hospital mortality risk.
  • Clinicians require a simple tool for rapid AAD patient prognosis assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a simple emergency risk prediction tool for acute aortic dissection patients.
  • To identify independent predictors of in-hospital death in AAD patients.

Main Methods:

  • Enrolled 280 patients with AAD admitted to the emergency department.
  • Utilized multivariate logistic regression to identify predictors of in-hospital mortality.
  • Developed a risk score based on identified predictors.

Main Results:

  • In-hospital mortality for AAD was 32.5%.
  • Key predictors of death included advanced age (≥65), Type A dissection, low systolic blood pressure (≤90 mmHg), high neutrophil percentage (≥80%), and elevated serum D-dimer (≥5.0 mg/L).
  • A risk score threshold of 10 demonstrated high sensitivity (81.3%) and specificity (86.8%) for predicting in-hospital death.

Conclusions:

  • In-hospital mortality in AAD is significant but predictable.
  • Early surgical intervention appears beneficial for improving survival outcomes.
  • The developed risk prediction tool enables rapid prognosis assessment for AAD patients in emergency settings.