Prevalence and Screening of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Among Men With Coronary Artery Disease (CAD-AAA)

North Karelia Central Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Treatments: Other: ultrasound of aorta

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01897623

AAA-CAD-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) among male patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) verified in coronary angiography. Ethiology of AAA is known to be common with atherosclerotic arterial diseases (coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease and carotid artery disease), so the hypothesis is that AAA should be more common among these CAD patients, thus making screening of these patients (for AAA) more cost-efficient.

Study will be carried out as a multi-center prospective screening study. Data will be collected in North Karelia Central Hospital, Kuopio University Hospital and Tampere University Hospital. Data consists of 200 consecutive coronary angiography patients in each hospital, resulting in 600 patients in total. All male patients with diagnosed CAD will be recruited for the study and screened for AAA with ultrasound. Nevertheless, patients with previously known AAA will be excluded from the study.

Sex: Male

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male patients with coronary artery disease

Exclusion criteria

• Patient's denial to participate
• Female Gender
• Already diagnosed or treated abdominal aortic aneurysm

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

ultrasound of aorta

Other group

Treatment:

Other: ultrasound of aorta