Clinical utility of transthoracic echocardiography for screening abdominal aortic aneurysm: a prospective study in a Japanese population

BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical utility of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for screening abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and to identify important TTE indices associated with AAA in a Japanese population. METHODS: We prospectively studied 1912 patients who...

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Autores principales: Matsumura, Yoshihisa, Wada, Michiko, Hirakawa, Daigo, Yasuoka, Yuka, Morimoto, Norihito, Takeuchi, Hiroaki, Kitaoka, Hiroaki, Orihashi, Kazumasa, Sugiura, Tetsuro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4751668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26868661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-016-0051-x

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