Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Conditions
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Registration Number
- NCT01863524
- Lead Sponsor
- HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
- Brief Summary
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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
- patients over 65 years old with ACS. patients capable of reading, understanding and signing informed concent
- suboptimal TTE windows
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Abdominal aortic diameter measurement of 30 mm or more by portable transthoracic echocardiography, will be defined as abdominal aortic aneurysm. Average time period of 72 hours.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (2)
HaEmek MC Cardiology depratment
🇮🇱Afula, Israel
Haemek Medical Center
🇮🇱Afula, Israel