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ArticleJournal of thoracic disease2020

A nomogram for predicting in-hospital mortality in acute type A aortic dissection patients.

Guifang Yang, Yang Zhou, Huaping He, Xiaogao Pan, Xizhao Li, Xiangping Chai

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Article in Journal of thoracic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Guifang YangDepartment of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Yang ZhouDepartment of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Huaping HeDepartment of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Xiaogao PanDepartment of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Xizhao LiDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Xiangping ChaiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, China.
Central South University · CNSecond Xiangya Hospital of Central South University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAlthough there are several biomarkers for identifying in-hospital mortality in acute type A aortic dissection (AAD), timely as well as perfect prediction in-hospital mortality is still not attained. Herein, we intend to develop as well to validate an in-hospital mortality risk independent predictive nomogram for AAD patients.

methodsFrom January 2014 to December 2018, 703 individuals with AAD were involved in this study. They were indiscriminately categorized into training (n=520) and validation (n=183) sets. The univariate and multivariate analyses were used to screen in-hospital mortality predictors from the entire training set data. The predictors were used to establish a nomogram which was confirmed via internal as well as external authentication. This validation included discriminative capacity defined by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve area under the curve (AUC) and the predictive precision via calibration curves.

resultsThere was 33.43% in-hospital mortality overall incidence. The uric acid, D-dimer, C-reactive protein and management were individually related to in-hospital mortality as per multivariate logistic regression. On the basis of four variables with internal of AUC 0.901 and external validation of AUC 0.903, a nomogram was established. Calibration plots showed that the predicted and actual in-hospital mortality probabilities were fitted well on both internal and external validation.

conclusionsThis recommended nomogram can calculate the specific possibility of in-hospital mortality with good precision, high discrimination, and probable clinical application in AAD patients.

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Acute aortic dissectionin-hospital mortalitynomogram

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