Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 90
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Abdominal aortic diameter measurement of 30 mm or more by portable transthoracic echocardiography, will be defined as abdominal aortic aneurysm.
研究概览
简要总结
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 100 Years（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •patients over 65 years old with ACS. patients capable of reading, understanding and signing informed concent
排除标准
- •suboptimal TTE windows
结局指标
主要结局
Abdominal aortic diameter measurement of 30 mm or more by portable transthoracic echocardiography, will be defined as abdominal aortic aneurysm.
时间窗: Average time period of 72 hours.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Mohamed Jabaren
MD
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel