Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome

Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using a Portable Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) Among Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01863524

Enrollment

Registered

2013-05-29

Start date

2013-05-31

Completion date

2015-07-31

Last updated

2016-12-06

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Conditions

Acute Coronary Syndrome

Keywords

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA),, Echocardiography (TTE),, Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS), Patients over 65 years old

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.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

65 Years to 100 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* patients over 65 years old with ACS. patients capable of reading, understanding and signing informed concent

Exclusion criteria

* suboptimal TTE windows

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
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.

Countries

Israel

Outcome results