Diagnosing Aortic Intramural Hematoma: Current Perspectives

Abstract

Aortic intramural hematoma (AIH) is an entity within the acute aortic syndrome. Combination of a priori probability, clinical history, laboratory blood test and imaging techniques are the basis for diagnosis of AIH. This review is focused on all aspects related to diagnosis of patients with AIH, from clinical to imaging and analytical.

Keywords:

• aortic intramural hematoma
• acute aortic syndrome
• diagnosis

Disclosure

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.