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Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening program using hand-held ultrasound in primary healthcare.
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- Risk factors for abdominal aortic aneurysm in general populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The association between diabetes and abdominal aortic aneurysms in men: results of two Danish screening studies, a systematic review, and a meta-analysis of population-based screening studies.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound in General Practice: A Systematic Review.Annals of family medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Risk Factors for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Population-Based Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Validation of Family Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Screening (POCUS) for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm.Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM · 2026Observational
- A Comprehensive Analysis of the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Growth Rate in the Spanish Population.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Used to Rapidly Diagnose Both Renal Colic and a Symptomatic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in an Elderly Man with Left Flank Pain.POCUS journal · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Abdominal Point of Care Ultrasound in Primary Care: Study Design and Protocol.POCUS journal · 2024Article
- Reproducibility and feasibility of a handheld ultrasound device compared to a standard ultrasound machine in muscle thickness measurements.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2023Article
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in an academic family practice: Short-term impact of guideline changes.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2022Article
- Ultrasound in primary care: Consensus recommendations on its applications and training. Results of a 3-round Delphi study.The European journal of general practice · 2022Article
- Point-of-Care Abdominal Ultrasonography (POCUS) on the Way to the Right and Rapid Diagnosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Screening for aneurysms of the abdominal aorta using a simple screening device.The ultrasound journal · 2020Review
- Association of simple renal cysts and chronic kidney disease with large abdominal aortic aneurysm.BMC nephrology · 2020Article
- Acute Pyelonephritis Associated with Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: An Unusual Presentation.European journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2020Article
- Point-of-care ultrasound in primary care: a systematic review of generalist performed point-of-care ultrasound in unselected populations.The ultrasound journal · 2019Review
- ESR statement on portable ultrasound devices.Insights into imaging · 2019Article
- Hand-Held Ultrasound Devices Compared with High-End Ultrasound Systems: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Radiologic Modalities and Response Assessment Schemes for Clinical and Preclinical Oncology Imaging.Frontiers in oncology · 2019Review
- [Point of Care Ultrasound in Primary Care. Is it a high resolution tool?]Atencion primaria · 2018Article
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Abstract
We determined the feasibility of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening program led by family physicians in public primary healthcare setting using hand-held ultrasound device. The potential study population was 11,214 men aged ≥ 60 years attended by three urban, public primary healthcare centers. Participants were recruited by randomly-selected telephone calls. Ultrasound examinations were performed by four trained family physicians with a hand-held ultrasound device (Vscan®). AAA observed were verified by confirmatory imaging using standard ultrasound or computed tomography. Cardiovascular risk factors were determined. The prevalence of AAA was computed as the sum of previously-known aneurysms, aneurysms detected by the screening program and model-based estimated undiagnosed aneurysms. We screened 1,010 men, with mean age of 71.3 (SD 6.9) years; 995 (98.5%) men had normal aortas and 15 (1.5%) had AAA on Vscan®. Eleven out of 14 AAA-cases (78.6%) had AAA on confirmatory imaging (one patient died). The total prevalence of AAA was 2.49% (95%CI 2.20 to 2.78). The median aortic diameter at diagnosis was 3.5 cm in screened patients and 4.7 cm (p<0.001) in patients in whom AAA was diagnosed incidentally. Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified coronary heart disease (OR = 4.6, 95%CI 1.3 to 15.9) as the independent factor with the highest odds ratio. A screening program led by trained family physicians using hand-held ultrasound was a feasible, safe and reliable tool for the early detection of AAA.
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