SOURCE: MedPage Today
DATE: January 20, 2009
EXCERPT: "Contrary to expectations, women who undergo last-ditch, minimally-invasive procedures to open small blood vessels in the leg -- and forestall amputation -- generally have better outcomes than men, .... In many endovascular procedures, women tend to do worse then men, generally because they tend to have smaller blood vessels. But in this study, involving the smallest leg blood vessels, the opposite occurred. ... On the downside, women experienced higher rates of blood clots forming at the access site of the treatment ..." more
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NOT IN PM YET Faries PL, Shah T, Han D, Shirvalker P, Marin M. Is gender associated with higher re-intervention rates for infragenicular lesions? J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009;20(12):1653.
RELATED LINKS:
Shah, Tejas. Endovascular Reintervention Rates for Below-the-Knee Lesions in Women: Does Gender Make a Difference? Presentation at International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2010 January 17 - 21, 2010, Hollywood, Florida. [Best of ISET Abstracts]
http://iset.org/
DATE: January 20, 2009
EXCERPT: "Contrary to expectations, women who undergo last-ditch, minimally-invasive procedures to open small blood vessels in the leg -- and forestall amputation -- generally have better outcomes than men, .... In many endovascular procedures, women tend to do worse then men, generally because they tend to have smaller blood vessels. But in this study, involving the smallest leg blood vessels, the opposite occurred. ... On the downside, women experienced higher rates of blood clots forming at the access site of the treatment ..." more
RELATED PUBMED LINK:
NOT IN PM YET Faries PL, Shah T, Han D, Shirvalker P, Marin M. Is gender associated with higher re-intervention rates for infragenicular lesions? J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009;20(12):1653.
RELATED LINKS:
Shah, Tejas. Endovascular Reintervention Rates for Below-the-Knee Lesions in Women: Does Gender Make a Difference? Presentation at International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2010 January 17 - 21, 2010, Hollywood, Florida. [Best of ISET Abstracts]
http://iset.org/
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