Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Report summarizes abdominal aortic aneurysm study findings from M.F.L. Meijs and co-researchers

Published in Telemedicine Week, March 2nd, 2010

"Most previous studies on determinants of left ventricular (LV) mass have used echocardiography, which is less accurate than cardiac MRI (CMR). Furthermore, studies that used CMR to study the determinants of LV mass were performed in the general population," investigators in Netherlands report.

"However, determinants may differ between those with and without previous symptomatic events. We studied the relation between atherosclerotic risk factors and LV mass in subjects free from cardiac disease, yet with and without atherosclerotic disease elsewhere. A CMR was performed in 531 hypertensive subjects with clinically manifest extra-cardiac atherosclerotic disease or...

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Source: Telemedicine Week (2010-03-02)

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