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Progress with limits: Female surgeons still face uneven playing field
For decades, vascular surgery had few female surgeons. The specialty carved out its territory with increasingly sophisticated techniques, but the operating rooms where surgeons performed carotid endarterectomies and aortic repairs remained overwhelmingly male. Only in recent years have women started…
Female patients found to be at increased risk from adverse outcomes after an ALI diagnosis
Results from a new study highlighting that female patients are at increased risk of adverse outcomes after acute limb ischemia (ALI) lend weight to the possibility of underdiagnosis and management of vascular disease among women, the authors behind the research…
Highlighting original work by women: Peer-review title blazes new trail in vascular surgery
The September issue of Annals of Vascular Surgery featured 37 original, peer-reviewed scientific papers whose lead authors and researchers are women vascular surgeons. Here, editor Caitlin W. Hicks, MD, discusses the mechanics of getting the publication out, coming amid recent…
Rates of stroke, death and myocardial infarction post-TCAR do not differ by patient sex
While sex disparities regarding the outcomes of carotid revascularization have “long been a concern,” new prospective data published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) indicate that no such disparity exists between male and female patients treated with transcarotid artery…
EVS 2023: New data chart underrepresentation of women at the head of national clinical trials
The underrepresentation of women vascular surgeons in national clinical trial leadership formed the central theme of data coming out of a new study that probed all clinical trials in five main areas of vascular disease between 1997 and 2003. Delivered…
When women are PIs: A story foretold on the vascular frontlines
“Multifactorial” issues persist in gender representation in vascular leadership and trial enrollment, leading women vascular surgeons tell Vascular Specialist. “We would have fewer untoward side effects, fewer drugs removed from the market by the FDA [Food and Drug Administration], and,…
Research on aortic size index as predictor of AAAs in men vs women highlights importance of evidence-based practice
Seeking a better understanding of why women with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) have worse outcomes when compared with men, a new study champions adherence to “evidence-based practice” to challenge gender disparities within vascular surgery, in pursuit of sustained conversation…
Women’s Vascular Summit 2023: The ‘changing’ landscape of AAAs in women
Since conducting an initial U.S. population-based study of gendered abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) trends spanning 40 years, Indrani Sen, MBBS, an assistant professor of surgery in the Mayo Clinic Health System, has used her research as a launchpad to delve…
SCVS 2023: Four decades of AAAs in the US: Rare epidemiological study establishes women are diagnosed and repaired 10 years later than men
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) diagnosis and repair occurs among women almost 10 years later than in men—with similar age-adjusted mortality—the 2023 Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) annual meeting in Miami (March 25–29) is set to be told. The finding…
‘Voices of Vascular’ series celebrates Women’s History Month
The contributions of the Society for Vascular Surgery’s women members take center stage this month as part of the SVS Foundation’s “Voices of Vascular” series. The “Voices” series is designed to help celebrate the diversity in the vascular surgery specialty.…