Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome

The prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm among 65 years old individuals worldwide is 1-2%. when diagnosis is confirmed by abdominal Ultrasound the prevalence is 5.5% in men and 1% in women.

As abdominal aortic aneurysm and coronary heart disease share common risk factors, patients with acute coronary syndrome represent a high risk population in which screening for another atherosclerotic site is recommended.

Patients admitted for ACS undergo routinely TTE. during the same study, TTE may offer the opportunity to evaluate the cardiac morphology and function and to screen for Abdominal Aortic aneurysm. It was reported by different studies that the Sensitivity of this technique was between 91-96% for AAA screening.

In addition, this method is cheap, available and requires only 2-3 minutes to be added to the standard TTE.

we plan to examine patients admitted with ACS in our Intensive Care Unit for screening AAA by TTE in subcostal views in addition to the standard TTE examination.

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Key information

Conditions

Acute Coronary Syndrome Aneurysm Aortic Aneurysm Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal Aortic Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Diseases Myocardial Ischemia Vascular Diseases

Age range

65 year–100 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

HaEmek MC Cardiology depratment, Afula, Israel

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

patients over 65 years old with ACS. patients capable of reading, understanding and signing informed concent

Exclusion criteria

suboptimal TTE windows

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Abdominal aortic diameter measurement of 30 mm or more by portable transthoracic echocardiography, will be defined as abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Time frame: Average time period of 72 hours.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

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Registry information

Official study title

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit.

Important dates

Study start: 2013
Primary completion: 2015
Study completion: 2015
First posted: May 29, 2013
Registry last updated: Dec 6, 2016

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