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Psychosocial impact of screening for intracranial aneurysms in relatives with familial subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Stroke - 1 Apr 2005
Wermer M J H, van der Schaaf I C, Van Nunen P, Bossuyt P M M, Anderson C S, Rinkel G J E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In families with > or =2 relatives with intracranial aneurysms (IAs), screening for IAs in asymptomatic first-degree relatives is often recommended. We assessed the long-term psychosocial impact of such screening. METHODS: We identified all persons with IA (screen-positives) and matched them for age and sex with 2 controls without IA (screen-negatives) from hospital-based registers of...
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