AAA Screening Should Be Expanded

Circulation. 2019 Sep 10;140(11):889-890. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041116. Epub 2019 Sep 9.

Authors

Thomas F X O'Donnell^{1

2}, Bruce E Landon^{3

4}, Marc L Schermerhorn²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (T.F.X.O.).
² Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (T.F.X.O., M.L.S.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
³ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (B.E.L.).
⁴ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care (B.E.L.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

PMID: 31498694
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.041116

No abstract available

Keywords: abdominal aortic aneurysm; cardiovascular disease; risk assessment.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / diagnostic imaging*
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / mortality*
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / surgery
Female
Humans
Male
Mass Screening / methods*