Tag: women
Aortic disease in women and men: Overcoming challenges for a promising...
Based on the Janet Powell Honorary Lecture she gave at this year's European Society for Vascular Surgery annual meeting (ESVS Month; 29 September–29 October,...
ESVS 2019: “Specific need” for improved management in ruptured AAAs in...
Kevin Mani (Uppsala, Sweden) talks to BLearning Aortic at ESVS 2019 (European Society for Vascular Surgery; 24–27 September; Hamburg, Germany) about a recently published epidemiological analysis of ruptured abdominal aortic...
Five-year ENGAGE data demonstrate comparable EVAR outcomes in male and female...
Five-year data from Medtronic’s ENGAGE global registry indicate that endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) outcomes are comparable between male and female patients when using the...
Increased mortality in females after TEVAR
It is well known that women have worse outcomes following treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms, but a recent study finds that the results are...
Endologix reports positive clinical data from the Ovation LUCY study in...
Endologix has announced 30-day results from the LUCY (Evaluation of Females who are Underrepresented Candidates for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair) study. The data showed...
Screening women for abdominal aortic aneurysm would yield little benefit and...
First-time data presentation from the SWAN (Screening Women for Abdominal aNeurysms) project was heard at the 2017 Charing Cross Symposium (CX; 25–28 April, London, UK). The...
Women face higher mortality following TEVAR for intact descending thoracic aortic...
Even after adjusting for differences in age and comorbidities, female patients have higher perioperative mortality and lower long-term survival after thoracic endovascular aneurysm repair...
Endologix completes enrolment in Ovation Lucy study
Endologix has completed patient enrolment in the Lucy (Evaluation of females who are underrepresented candidates for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair) study, a multicentre post-market...
