[Diagnosis of arterial vascular diseases with duplex sonography. Often better than angiography]
1Innere Medizin/Angiologie, Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach D-76307 Karlsbad.
Abstract:
Color-coded duplex ultrasonography has decisively improved the noninvasive diagnostic possibilities in angiology. It is side effect-free, repeatable whenever required and, in experienced hands, can be performed within a reasonable time. In contrast, arterial angiography is a purely diagnostic but invasive procedure with an associated complication rate of 0.5% [25]. Color-coded duplex ultrasonography is an effective and inexpensive diagnostic method. The overall cost of such an examination is about 120 euros [25]; this contrasts with overall costs of 939 euros for MR angiography, and 1297 euros for an intra-arterial angiography.
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