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We appreciate your comments about our work and are eagerly anticipating the first publications from the TriVascular Evaluation of Females Who Are Underrepresented Candidates for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair (LUCY) study. We agree that the outcomes in women with abdominal aortic aneurysms have repeatedly been shown to be suboptimal, and these data can no longer be overlooked. As Dr Ash described, women have been poorly represented in all major randomized, controlled trials and are likely also to be under-represented in retrospective series, including ours, of outcomes in patients undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair in the real world because of the decreased likelihood that female patients will be offered endovascular repair with their often more challenging anatomy.
Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research