Affiliation:
1. Department of Surgery, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK
Abstract
Abstract
Between September 1990 and August 1991, 2291 men aged 65 years were invited for ultrasonographic screening of the aorta in the Gloucestershire aneurysm screening programme; 1748 (76.3 per cent) attended. An aortic diameter ⩽ 2.5 cm was found in 1547 (88.5 per cent); 174 (10.0 per cent) had diameters in the range 2.6-4.0 cm, and 26 (1.5 per cent) had diameters >4.0 cm. The mean(s.d.) aortic diameter was 2.1(0.55) cm and 97.5 per cent of patients had a diameter ⩽3.3 cm. Any man over the age of 65 years with an aortic diameter >3.3 cm has an aortic aneurysm.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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