Publications by authors named "J M Bismuth"
Objective: Frailty has become an increasingly recognized perioperative risk stratification tool. While frailty has been strongly correlated with worsening surgical outcomes, the individual determinants of frailty have rarely been investigated in the setting of aortic disease. The aim of this study was to examine the determinants of an 11-factor modified frailty index (mFI-11) on mortality and postoperative complications in patients undergoing endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeadership is a skill that all surgeons are confronted with in some capacity. Surprisingly in the US most training programs do not offer a structured program in leadership and there certainly are no metrics used to assess leadership competency. As a response to this, at The Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) a panel of leaders in vascular surgery both national and international, along with leadership experts discussed some of the salient issues in this space.
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- - Fabry disease (FD) is a rare genetic disorder linked to the GLA gene and is marked by a range of symptoms affecting various organs, often signaled by chronic pain.
- - Two studies were conducted to determine the prevalence of FD in chronic pain patients, testing alpha-galactosidase A activity in men and analyzing the GLA gene in women.
- - The findings indicated that FD's prevalence in this group is about 1 in 1000 individuals, suggesting that while routine screening for FD in chronic pain patients is not essential, awareness of its symptoms is crucial for diagnosis, especially with family histories of the disease.
Background: Our objective is twofold: determining if simulation allows residents to reach proficient surgeons' performance concerning fundamental technical skills of endovascular surgery (FEVS) while investigating effects of the program on surgeons' stress.
Methods: Using a FEVS training simulator, 8 endovascular FEVS were performed by vascular surgery residents (simulator-naive or simulator-experienced residents [SER]) and seniors. Total time needed to complete the 8 tasks, called total completion time (TCT), was the main evaluation criterion.
Background: Extracellular volume fraction (ECV), measured with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI), has been utilized to study myocardial fibrosis, but its role in peripheral artery disease (PAD) remains unknown. We hypothesized that T1 mapping and ECV differ between PAD patients and matched controls.
Methods And Results: A total of 37 individuals (18 PAD patients and 19 matched controls) underwent 3.