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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:618-619
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Editorial

The female perspective: gender in cardiothoracic surgery

Nancy A. Nussmeier, MDa,*

a Department of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Tex, USA

Received for publication June 3, 2003; accepted for publication July 7, 2003.

* Address for reprints: Nancy A. Nussmeier, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Anesthesia Research, Texas Heart Institute at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, 6720 Bertner Ave, Room O-520 (MC 1-226), Houston, TX 77030, USA
nnussmeier@heart.thi.tmc.edu

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Dr Nussmeier


In upcoming issues of the Journal, a provocative series of editorials will be presented by a panel of cardiac, thoracic, and vascular surgeons, cardiologists, and cardiac anesthesiologists who are unique in that they are all women. The common thread in this series has nothing to do with political correctness or feminism, but rather with their particular insights and perspectives of thoracic and cardiovascular diseases from the same body of knowledge available to all physicians. Their focus will be on gender differences in disease patterns and responses to therapy, the paradoxes, the possible reasons, and the unknowns. Some of the editorialists are young, some are eminent, but all have carefully contemplated the issue of gender differences and . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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