Open AccessScreening for Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm During Transthoracic Echocardiography in Patient With Significant Coronary Artery Disease
Author(s) -
Pravesh Vishwakarma,
Panduranga Patwari,
Akshyaya Pradhan,
Monika Bhandari,
Rishi Sethi,
Sharad Chandra,
Gaurav Chaudhary,
Akhil Sharma,
Sudhanshu Kumar Dwivedi,
Varun Shankar Narain
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cardiology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-2837
pISSN - 1923-2829
DOI - 10.14740/cr1288
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal aortic aneurysm , cardiology , coronary artery disease , diabetes mellitus , family history , risk factor , abdominal aorta , aneurysm , aorta , surgery , endocrinology
Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has ethnic differences, and coronary artery disease (CAD) shares several risk factors with AAA. Sparse Indian data are available on this. We evaluated the prevalence of AAA during transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and risk factors of AAA in patients with CAD.