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  • Title: Screening for clinically unsuspected abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
    Author: Berridge DC, Griffith CD, Amar SS, Hopkinson BR, Makin GS.
    Journal: Eur J Vasc Surg; 1989 Oct; 3(5):421-2. PubMed ID: 2806573.
    Abstract:
    In patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms, most fatalities occur from rupture before the patient can be brought to hospital. Even when seen in hospital the mortality is still approximately 50% in contrast to elective repair which has a substantially reduced mortality of less than 5%. In order to reduce the number of patients dying from rupture, they must be diagnosed early to allow elective intervention, hence there has been considerable renewed interest in screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms. We have studied a consecutive series of 104 patients with either claudication or ischaemic rest pain in the lower limbs to determine the incidence of aortic aneurysms in this type of patient.
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