The purpose of this paper is to describe all available evidence on the distinctive features of a
group of 4 life-threatening acute aortic pathologies gathered under the name of acute aortic …

Aortic dissection is an emergent medical condition, generally affecting the elderly,
characterized by a separation of the aortic wall layers and subsequent creation of a …

Abstract Aim The “2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic
Disease” provides recommendations to guide clinicians in the diagnosis, genetic evaluation …

Background: Acute aortic syndromes (AASs) are rare and severe cardiovascular
emergencies with unspecific symptoms. For AASs, both misdiagnosis and overtesting are …

Patients with hypertensive emergencies, malignant hypertension and acute severe
hypertension are managed heterogeneously in clinical practice. Initiating anti-hypertensive …

Objectives In patients at low clinical probability of acute aortic syndromes (AASs), decision
on advanced aortic imaging is cumbersome. Integration of the aortic dissection detection risk …

Abstract Aim The “2022 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Aortic
Disease” provides recommendations to guide clinicians in the diagnosis, genetic evaluation …

Overtesting, the downstream consequences of overdiagnosis, and overtreatment of some
patients are topics of growing debate within emergency medicine (EM). The “Preventing …

Acute aortic syndrome and in particular aortic dissection (AAD) persists as a cause of
significant morbidity and mortality despite improvements in surgical management. This …

Background: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and clinical utility of the acute aortic
dissection detection risk score (ADD-RS) alone or with D-dimer as a screening test to …