Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

OPG/TRAIL ratio as a predictive biomarker of mortality in patients with type A acute aortic dissection

  • Jie Lu,
  • Ping Li,
  • Ke Ma,
  • Yang Li,
  • Hui Yuan,
  • Junming Zhu,
  • Weixun Duan,
  • Jingsong Ou,
  • Yonghong Huang,
  • Long Wu,
  • Xueliang Pan,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Jie Du,
  • Yulin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23787-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Despite many therapeutic improvements, mortality risk in patients with type A acute aortic dissection remains high. Here the authors construct a biomarker-guided risk stratification tool to predict death, which could potentially contribute to treatment decision-making and improvement of the prognosis.