Disparities in Aortic Aneurysm Mortality Trends: Revealing Sex and Racial Inequalities.

Background: Abdominal aortic dissection or aneurysm (AAA) is a significant health concern in developed nations often underdiagnosed with poor outcomes. Despite a decline in aortic dissection and aneurysm mortality rates in the US from 1999 to 2020, reported by the CDC, this improvement disproportionately favors males and Caucasians. This study aims to elucidate these disparities.

Medical Law and Medical School Curricula: A Systematic Review.

Health law plays a crucial role in the field of medicine, as it dictates appropriate practices, regulations, and rights and responsibilities for healthcare professionals and patients. Despite this undeniable relationship, there is a lack of focus on health law, and an outdated hidden curriculum in medical education has perpetuated long-standing negative perceptions of the legal system. PubMed was searched for articles related to medicolegal education that were published from January 1950 to December 2022.

Comparison of outcomes for balloon angioplasty, atherectomy, and stenting in the treatment of infrapopliteal disease for chronic limb-threatening ischemia.

Objective: We evaluated limb salvage (LS), amputation-free survival (AFS), and target extremity reintervention (TER) after plain old balloon angioplasty (POBA), stenting, and atherectomy for treatment of infrapopliteal disease (IPD) with chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI).

Methods: All index peripheral vascular interventions for IPD and CLTI were identified from the Vascular Quality Initiative registry. Of the multilevel procedures, the peripheral vascular intervention type was indexed to the infrapopliteal segment.

Successful treatment of a ruptured profunda femoris artery aneurysm in association with fibromuscular dysplasia.

Fibromuscular dysplasia is rarely reported in the infra-inguinal arteries. We report a case of an 86-year-old woman who presented with a ruptured profunda femoris artery aneurysm who was found to have angiographic findings of fibromuscular dysplasia in the bilateral deep femoral arteries and bilateral renal arteries. The rupture was treated successfully with a balloon-expandable covered stent.

Outcomes and associated factors in malpractice litigation involving inferior vena cava filters.

Objective: Placement of inferior vena cava (IVC) filters is a controversial focus of medical malpractice. Clinicians currently have little information to guide them regarding key issues and outcomes in litigation. In this retrospective legal case review, we analyzed the factors associated with malpractice actions involving IVC filters.

Malpractice litigation in the endovascular era.

Objective: The standard of care in the treatment of vascular disease continues to evolve as endovascular therapies develop. Currently, it is unclear how medical malpractice litigation has adapted to the "endovascular era." This retrospective case review is the most comprehensive analysis to date of malpractice actions involving endovascular procedures performed by vascular surgeons (VSs), interventional radiologists (IRs), interventional cardiologists (ICs), and cardiothoracic surgeons (CTSs).

Intraoperative near-infrared imaging can identify pulmonary nodules.

Background: Over 80,000 people undergo pulmonary resection for a lung nodule in the United States each year. Small nodules are frequently missed or difficult to find despite preoperative imaging. We hypothesized that near-infrared (NIR) imaging technology could be used to identify and locate lung nodules during surgery.