Early and Late Mortality Predictors in Patients with Acute Aortic Dissection Type B

Table 1

Baseline characteristics for all patients with type B aortic dissection.

Variable	N	%
Age-mean (±SD), year	62.32 (9.62)	—
Gender-male	71	68.3
Any pain reported	103/104	99.0
Abrupt onset of pain	94/103	91.3
Relapsing pain	36/103	34.9
Prior aortic aneurysm	9	8.6
Prior aortic dissection	1	1.4
Prior cardiac Cath/PTCA/CABG	7	6.7
Marfan’s syndrome	1	1.4
Hypertension	98	94.3
Treatment of prior hypertension	72	69.7
Uncontrolled hypertension	89/104	85.6
Diabetes	9	8.6
Smoking	61	58.6
Hyperlipidemia	40	38.5
Arterial blood pressure difference over 20 mmHg	31/104	29.8
Syncope	24/104	23.1
Any pulse deficit	34/104	32.7
Monoplegia/monoparesis	11/104	10.5
Cardiac failure	3/104	2.9
Hypotension/shock	3/104	2.9
Auscultated murmur of aortic insufficiency	25/104	24.1
Acute renal failure	15/104	14.4
Neurological symptoms and signs (CVI, spinal ischemia)	10/104	9.6

N, number of patients; SD, standard deviation; PTCA, Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; CABG, Coronary artery bypass graft surgery; CVI, cerebrovascular insult.