Feasibility of hand-held-ultrasonography in the screening of abdominal aortic aneurysms and abdominal aortic atherosclerosis;Utilidad de la ecografía portá til en el cribado del aneurisma de aorta abdominal y de la ateromatosis de aorta abdominal

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 417-422

  Sisó Almirall, Antoni ^a   Solé, Rosa Gilabert ^b   Saumell, Concepció Bru ^b   Kostov, Belchin ^a   Heredia, Minerva Mas ^a   González De Paz, Luis ^a   Montal, Laura Sebastián ^a   Àreu, Jaume Benavent ^c  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; Abdominal aortic atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular risk; Hand held ultrasonography; Ultrasonic stethoscope

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ADULT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HAND HELD ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RADIOLOGIST; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SMOKING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL AORTIC ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ANEURISMA ABDOMINAL AÓRTICO; ATEROMATOSIS DE AORTA ABDOMINAL; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECOGRAFÍA PORTÁTIL; ESTETOSCOPIO ULTRASÓNICO; HAND-HELD ULTRASONOGRAPHY; RIESGO CARDIOVASCULAR; ULTRASONIC STETHOSCOPE;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; OVERWEIGHT; PILOT PROJECTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SMOKING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84890205819     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2013.02.038     Document Type: Article

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