Kozar 2018
Kozar 2018
Rosemary A. Kozar, MD, PhD, Marie Crandall, MD, Kathirkamanthan Shanmuganathan, MD,
Ben L. Zarzaur, MD, Mike Coburn, MD, Chris Cribari, MD, Krista Kaups, MD, Kevin Schuster, MD,
Gail T. Tominaga, MD, and the AAST Patient Assessment Committee, Baltimore, Maryland
Submitted: May 26, 2018, Accepted: August 10, 2018, Published online: September 5, 2018.
From the Shock Trauma (R.A.K.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville (M.C.), Jacksonville,
Florida; Shock Trauma and Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (K.S.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Surgery
(B.Z.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; Scott Department of Urology (M.C.), Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas; Department of Sur-
gery (C.C.), University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; Department of Surgery (K.K.), UCSF Fresno, California; Department of Surgery (K.S.), Yale School of Medicine; New
Haven, Connecticut; and Department of Surgery (G.T.T.), Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla; La Jolla, California.
Address for reprints: Rosemary Kozar, MD PhD, Shock Trauma Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 22 South Green St. T1R40, Baltimore, MD 21201;
email: [email protected].
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002058
Vascular injury is defined as a pseudoaneurysm or arteriovenous fistula and appears as a focal collection of vascular contrast that decreases in attenuation with delayed imaging, Active
bleeding from a vascular injury presents as vascular contrast, focal or diffuse, that increases in size or attenuation in delayed phase. Vascular thrombosis can lead to organ infarction.
Grade based on highest grade assessment made on imaging, at operation or on pathologic specimen.
More than one grade of liver injury may be present and should be classified by the higher grade of injury.
Advance one grade for multiple injuries up to a grade III.
Vascular injury is defined as a pseudoaneurysm or arteriovenous fistula and appears as a focal collection of vascular contrast that decreases in attenuation with delayed imaging.
Active bleeding from a vascular injury presents as vascular contrast, focal or diffuse, that increases in size or attenuation in delayed phase. Vascular thrombosis can lead to organ infarction.
Grade based on highest grade assessment made on imaging, at operation or on pathologic specimen.
More than one grade of kidney injury may be present and should be classified by the higher grade of injury.
Advance one grade for bilateral injuries up to Grade III.
diagnostic performance in evaluating solid organ injury than ei- outcomes trial: an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma multi-
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10. Marmery H, Shanmuganathan K, Mirvis SE, Richard H 3rd, Sliker C,
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AUTHORSHIP
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the literature search. R.A.K., M.C., K.S., B.Z., M.C., C.C., K.K., K.S., G.T. 13. Green CS, Bulger EM, Kwan SW. Outcomes and complications of
created the grading system. R.A.K. wrote the article. M.C., K.S., B.Z., M. angioembolization for hepatic trauma: a systematic review of the literature.
C., C.C., K.K., K.S., G.T. performed critical revision. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016;80(3):529–537.
14. Misselbeck TS, Teicher EJ, Cipolle MD, Pasquale MD, Shah KT,
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