During her doctoral research, Esther Maas investigated the use of new ultrasound techniques to image dangerous aortic aneurysms for patient-specific care. An aneurysm is a dangerous vascular ...

Screening for an abdominal aortic aneurysm involves a simple, abdominal ultrasound, which the guidelines recommend for people ...

This bulge in the aorta is called an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA ... additional stent grafts may be placed to ensure that the aneurysm is completely excluded. x-rays and/or intravascular ultrasound ...

Estimates indicate that a well-established screening programme could prevent up to 100 deaths from abdominal aortic aneurysms each year.

An abdominal aortic aneurysm, a widening of the main artery ... The screening involves an ultrasound scan of about 5-10 minutes with results available immediately afterwards.