High prevalence of unsuspected abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients hospitalised for surgical coronary revascularisation

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-68

  Monney, Pierre ^a   Hayoz, Daniel ^a   Tinguely, Francine ^a   Cornuz, Jacques ^b   Haesler, Erik ^a   Mueller, Xavier M ^a   Von Segesser, Ludwig K ^a   Tevaearai, Hendrik T ^a,c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Cardiac surgery; Coronary artery disease; Risk indicators; Screening

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SMOKING; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0347995016     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(03)00674-2     Document Type: Article

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