Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Aortic dissection

Prevalence
Clinical features
Differential diagnosis
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Clinical features

Consider it in all patients with chest or upper abdominal pain especially if they have:

chest pain ^c

Why?

90% to 94% of patients with aortic dissection have chest pain ^c

Expiry date: August 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author	CM Ball
Reviewer	M Briggs
CAT Writers	CM Ball , CJ Wotton