Tag: screening
AAA screening: UK programme’s 10-year anniversary prompts renewed push for increasing...
The UK’s national abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme is fast approaching its 10th anniversary—a milestone that Akhtar Nasim (Sheffield Vascular Institute, Sheffield, Sheffield,...
CX Aortic Vienna: Evidence highlights the need to address disparities in...
Presentations and discussions at the CX Aortic Vienna 2022 Digital Edition (24–26 October) highlighted the fact that population screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)...
Modern AAA metrics support expanding current screening guidelines
Results of a database review of more than 500,000 abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repairs revealed the majority of patients treated for rupture did not...
UK AAA screening results show “considerable” local variation in proportion of...
The first detailed surgical results from the UK National Health Service (NHS) Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (NAAASP) show that, over a seven-year period,...
Study of patients undergoing AAA repair suggests screening guidelines may be...
A retrospective study analysing approximately 55,000 patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair suggests current screening guidelines may be inadequate in detecting a significant...
US Preventive Services Task Force releases new recommendation on AAA screening
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has released a new recommendation statement on screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) in asymptomatic adults 50...
Mortality from rAAA decreases, but 43% occur in people not qualified...
Even though the number of deaths due to ruptured aortic aneurysms (rAAA) has decreased in the USA by 68% in recent years, a significant...
Screening women for abdominal aortic aneurysm would yield little benefit and...
First-time data presentation from the SWAN (Screening Women for Abdominal aNeurysms) project was heard at the 2017 Charing Cross Symposium (CX; 25–28 April, London, UK). The...
