April 24, 2018Circulation
Insights From the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection
Population
>7300 cases of acute aortic dissection (AAD) from >51 sites in 12 countries
Design
Review
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Unchanged type B mortality warrants clinical caution in management; leaves open targeted intervention trials beyond registry trends.
Structured PICO
P
Population
>7300 cases of acute aortic dissection (AAD) from >51 sites in 12 countries
O
Outcome
overall in-hospital mortalityhard clinical
Over 20 years of the IRAD registry, in-hospital mortality has significantly decreased for type A but not type B acute aortic dissection, alongside increased use of CT imaging and interventional procedures.
Cite This Study
Evangelista et al. (2018) studied this question.