View clinical trials related to Acute Aortic Syndrome.
Filter by:Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS) is a potentially life-threatening cause of sudden, severe chest pain. There are several possible underlying causes, which cannot be distinguished from one another at the bedside. Current practice is to image this with two CT scans of the chest, one before injection of a contrast dye into the blood stream and then one after. With the advancement of CT scanner technology, improvements in software interpretation and screen resolution, the investigators hypothesise that performing the contrast scan on its own is diagnostically equivalent to both the pre- and contrast scans
The study examined the clinical characteristics and conditions of care for patients with acute aortic syndrome (AAS) that will identify patients at risk for increased morbidity and mortality and provide a basis for the eventual achievement of specific studies on the optimal therapeutic management according to different risk profiles. The aim of the Observatory is to provide a photograph "size" of practices in France at present, both in the larger centers than in smaller and optimize diagnostic and therapeutic currently available by the activation pathways of rational management.