Table 2 Clinical Presentations, Signs, Diagnostic Imaging Examination, Laboratory findings on admission and Classification of Patients With Acute Aortic Dissection
Variable | Overall | ESRD | No ESRD | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinical Presentations and Signs | ||||
Typical pain (%) | 165 (76.0) | 43 (60.6) | 122 (83.6) | <0.001 |
Atypical pain (%) | 23 (10.6) | 15 (21.1) | 8 (5.5) | <0.001 |
Focal neurological deficits (%) | 5 (2.3) | 2 (2.8) | 3 (2.1) | 1.0 |
Other symptoms (%) | 15 (6.9) | 5 (7.0) | 10 (6.8) | 1.0 |
With no symptom (%) | 9 (4.1) | 6 (8.5) | 3 (2.1) | 0.064 |
Hypotension (%) | 4 (1.8) | 2 (2.8) | 2 (1.4) | 0.837 |
Mean systolic BP (SD), mmHg | 156.9 (28.7) | 161.9 (27.4) | 154.4 (29.1) | 0.069 |
Systolic BP over 180 mmHg(%) | 51 (23.5) | 23 (32.4) | 28 (19.2) | 0.031 |
Mean diastolic BP (SD), mmHg | 86.7 (20.7) | 89.2 (20.3) | 85.5 (20.9) | 0.223 |
Heart rate (SD), beats/min | 81.3 (16.2) | 81.7 (17.9) | 81.1 (15.4) | 0.796 |
Diagnostic Imaging | ||||
Echocardiography (%) | 5 (2.3) | 1 (1.4) | 4 (2.7) | 0.896 |
Computerized tomography (%) | 202 (93.1) | 65 (91.5) | 137 (93.8) | 0.736 |
Magnetic resonance imaging (%) | 8 (3.7) | 5 (7.0) | 3 (2.1) | 0.148 |
Aortography (%) | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 2 (1.4) | 1.0 |
Laboratory findings on admission | ||||
SCr (SD), umol/L | 346.9 (444.0) | 887.7 (407.5) | 83.9 (24.2) | <0.001 |
WBC (SD), 10^9 /L | 10.4 (4.2) | 7.9 (3.0) | 11.6 (4.2) | <0.001 |
PLT (SD), 10^9 /L | 199 (90.3) | 170 (92.8) | 213 (86.0) | <0.001 |
Classification of aortic dissection | ||||
Stanford type A (%) | 75 (34.6) | 17 (23.9) | 58 (39.7) | 0.022 |
Stanford type B (%) | 142 (65.4) | 54 (76.1) | 88 (60.3) | |