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Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients with lung cancer.
J Vasc Surg
May 2022
Division of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address:
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the link between abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) and primary lung cancer (LC), finding that patients with LC are 1.43 times more likely to have AAA compared to the general population.
- Analysis of data from 158,904 patients showed that 1.53% were diagnosed with AAA, with female smokers having a significantly higher rate of AAA across all age groups.
- The researchers suggest that due to shared risk factors, further investigations into AAA screening and its implications for improving outcomes, particularly for female patients, are needed.
Assessment of self-reported financial conflicts of interest in vascular surgery studies.
J Vasc Surg
December 2021
Division of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address:
Objective/background: With increased collaboration between surgeons and industry, there has been a push towards improving transparency of conflicts of interest (COIs). This study aims to determine the accuracy of reporting of COIs among studies in major vascular surgery journals.
Methods: A literature search identified all comparative studies published from January 2018 through December 2018 from three major United States vascular surgery journals (Journal of Vascular Surgery, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and Annals of Vascular Surgery).
A systematic review of the quality of cardiovascular surgery studies that extracted data from the MAUDE database.
J Vasc Surg
November 2021
Division of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address:
Objective: To investigate opportunities and limitations of using the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database for cardiovascular surgery research, we analyzed the quality of studies having ever used MAUDE, in the field of cardiovascular surgery.
Methods: We systematically searched the Cochrane Library, PubMed, EMBASE, and Google Scholar for randomized and nonrandomized studies, from inception to July 2019. Two authors evaluated the quality of the retrieved observational studies, according to the National Institutes of Health quality assessment tool for either case series or cross-sectional studies.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of predilation and postdilation in transfemoral carotid artery stenting.
J Vasc Surg
July 2020
Division of Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Electronic address:
Objective: In this review, we evaluate the short-term impact of different ballooning combinations on hemodynamic instability neurologic events, and mortality associated with carotid artery stenting.
Methods: We used a search strategy to identify studies in the Cochrane Library trials register, PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, and the US National Library of Medicine clinical trial databases up to May 2019. Studies reporting either hemodynamic instability, neurologic events, or mortality were included according to the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analysis.