Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms in Canada: 2020 review and position statement of the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery
Open Access
- 1 September 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in Canadian Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 64 (5), E461-E466
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cjs.009120
Abstract
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) remain a major risk to patients, despite level 1 evidence for screening to prevent rupture events and decrease mortality. In 2007, the Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery (CSVS) published a review and position statement for AAA screening in Canada. Since that publication, there have been a number of updates in the published literature affecting screening recommendations. In this paper, we present a review of some of the controversies in the AAA screening literature to help elucidate differences in the various published screening guidelines. This article represents a review of the data and updated recommendations for AAA screening in the Canadian population on behalf of the CSVS. Les anevrismes de l'aorte abdominale (AAA) continuent de poser un risque majeur pour les patients, malgre des donnees probantes de niveau 1 a l'appui du depistage pour prevenir les ruptures et reduire la mortalite. En 2007, la Societe canadienne de chirurgie vasculaire (SCCV) a publie une revue et un enonce de position sur le depistage de l'AAA au Canada. Depuis lors, plusieurs mises a jour ont paru dans la litterature et elles ont un impact sur les recommandations relatives au depistage. Dans le present article, nous presentons une synthese de quelques controverses soulevees dans la litterature sur le depistage de l'AAA afin d'expliquer les differences entre les diverses lignes directrices publiees a ce sujet. Cet article propose au nom de la SCCV une revue des donnees probantes et des recommandations a jour sur le depistage de l'AAA dans la population canadienne.Keywords
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