The value of evaluating the abdominal aorta in patients <50 years of age presenting for abdominal ultrasound.
Martin NecasMatt AdamsOrlaith BrennanNicole CurtisRachel HeslopEmma Woodrow-SmithPublished in: Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine (2020)
Routine and indiscriminate imaging of the abdominal aorta during abdominal US in patients <50 years of age is not evidence based. No new case of abdominal aortic aneurysm or new para-aortic pathology was detected, all cases of atherosclerosis were ignored, and two false-positive diagnoses of aortic ectasia were made.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- aortic valve
- newly diagnosed
- pulmonary artery
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- abdominal aortic aneurysm
- magnetic resonance imaging
- left ventricular
- computed tomography
- high resolution
- type diabetes
- coronary artery
- patient reported outcomes
- case report
- photodynamic therapy
- pulmonary arterial hypertension