Useful Links

The Circulation Foundation
Society of Vascular Technologists for UK and Ireland

Medical Library - General health information
British Heart Foundation - Information on cardiac disease
Surgicare - For varicose veins
NOAH - General information on all health disorders
Prodigy - Free registration - Gives current NHS guidance on TIA, DVT, Heart etc
United Kingdom Association of Sonographers
National Screening Committee

Clinical Articles

1. Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Predicts Future CV Risk

2. Early Carotid Atherosclerosis In Women: Results of an Ultrasonographic Study Measuring Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness
Salvatore Santo Signorelli MD?, Maria Pia Costa MD?, Daniele Digrandi MD?, Luigi Di Pino MD?, Gabriella Celotta MD?, Giuseppe Pennisi MD?, Giuseppe Marchese MD?, Paola Guardo BD?, Vittorio Virgilio MD? and Benedetto Torrisi PhD†
Vol 14 (4) July-Aug 2005, 162-166

This group recommends US screening in healthy populations to identify subjects who could develop vascular disease.

3. Carotid-Artery Intima and Media Thickness as a Risk Factor for Myocardial Infarction and Stroke in Older Adults

Daniel H. O'Leary, M.D., Joseph F. Polak, M.D., M.P.H., Richard A. Kronmal, Ph.D., Teri A. Manolio, M.D., M.H.S., Gregory L. Burke, M.D., M.S., Sidney K. Wolfson, M.D., for The Cardiovascular Health Study Collaborative Research Group

4. Aortic Aneurysm - Patient UK

5. Immediate repair compared with surveillance of small abdominal aortic aneurysms. Lederle F A, Wilson S E, Johnson G R et al. N Eng J Med 2002; 346: 1437-1444.

6. Mortality results for randomised controlled trial of early elective surgery or ultrasonographic surveillance for small abdominal aortic aneurysms. The UK Small Aneurysm Trial Participants. Lancet 1998; 352: 1649-1655.

7. The Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS) into the effect of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening on mortality in men: a randomised controlled trial. The Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study Group. Lancet 2002; 360: 1531-1539.

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