It is intended to provide a method of discriminating Stanford type A acute aortic dissection and Stanford type B acute aortic dissection from acute myocardial infarction, which show similar clinical symptoms to each other, and a discrimination kit therefor. More specifically, a method of discriminating Stanford type A acute aortic dissection and Stanford type B acute aortic dissection from acute myocardial infarction which comprises detecting both of D-dimer and H-FABP in the blood collected from a human subject possibly suffering from acute aortic dissection or acute myocardial infarction and making discrimination based on the concentrations thereof thus detected, and a discrimination kit therefor.
METHOD OF DISCRIMINATING TYPE A AND TYPE B ACUTE AORTIC DISSECTIONS FROM ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND DISCRIMINATION KIT