JVS Author Spotlight – Alonso, Siracuse, Chaer, and Ali

Audible Bleeding Editor and vascular surgery fellow Richa Kalsi (@KalsiMD) is joined by 4th year general surgery resident Sasank Kalipatnapu (@ksasank), JVS editor Dr. Thomas Forbes (@TL_Forbes), and JVS-VS editor Dr. John Curci (@CurciAAA) to discuss two great articles in the JVS family of journals. The first article discusses disability from periprocedural stroke in patients undergoing carotid artery stenting. The second article discusses the application of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and plasma biomarkers to abdominal aortic aneurysm monitoring. This episode hosts Dr. Andrea Alonso, Dr. Jeffrey Siracuse(@MdSiracuse), Dr. Adham Ali (@AdhamAbouAli), and Dr. Rabih Chaer (@rchaer2) authors of these two papers.

Articles:

• Part 1: Disability and associated outcomes among patients suffering periprocedural strokes after carotid artery stenting (Alonso, Siracuse)

• Referenced article - Postoperative disability and one-year outcomes for patients suffering a stroke after carotid endarterectomy (Levin, Siracuse)

• Audible Bleeding Episode - JVS Author Spotlight August 2023

• Part 2: Contrast-enhanced ultrasound microbubble uptake and abnormal plasma biomarkers are seen in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (Ali, Chaer)

Show Guests

• Dr. Alonso is a general surgery resident in her second year of research at Boston Medical Center on an AHRQ T32 grant.

• Dr. Siracuse is the Chief of vascular and endovascular surgery and the associate chair for quality and patient safety in the Department of Surgery at Boston Medical Center. He is also the program director for the vascular surgery fellowship and the medical director for the Vascular Study Group of New England.

• Dr. Ali is Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery at Charleston Area Medical Center.

• Dr. Chaer is a Professor of Surgery and Division Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at Stony Brook University.

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