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The effect of azithromycin and Chlamydophilia pneumonia infection on expansion of small abdominal aortic aneurysms - A prospective randomized double-blind trial

Lars Karlsson, MD
- Institution of Surgical Sciences, Section of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Gävle, Sweden
- Department of Surgery, Gävle County Hospital, Gävle, Sweden
- Reprint requests: Lars Karlsson, MD, Department of Surgery, Gävle County Hospital, S-80187 Gävle, Sweden
Judy Gnarpe, PhD
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
David Bergqvist, MD, PhD, FRCS
- Institution of Surgical Sciences, Section of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Gävle, Sweden
Johan Lindbäck, MSc
- Uppsala Clinical Research Centre, Section of Statistics, Uppsala, Gävle, Sweden
Håkan Pärsson, MD, PhD
- Institution of Surgical Sciences, Section of Vascular Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Gävle, Sweden
- Department of Surgery, Helsingborg County Hospital, Helsingborg, Sweden

Received 1 October 2008 ,Accepted 21 December 2008.

Trial profile.

Trial profile.
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Diameter by time, by treatment – all patients. Lines show smoothed (based on the Lowess method) estimates of the relation.

Diameter by time, by treatment – all patients. Lines show smoothed (based on the Lowess method) estimates of the relation.
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The Research was supported by grants from County of Gävleborg Research and Development Center (FoU), Gore Swedish Research Foundation, Pfizer AB Sweden, Schyberg medical research fund, and Zoega medical research fund. We thank Prof Martin Björck for initial funding for the CT scans.

Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(08)02287-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.048

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Volume 50, Issue 1 , Pages 23-29 , July 2009