Interventional radiology in woman's health: room for improvement.

This editorial in CVIR Endovascular discusses gender bias in women’s health research and clinical care, arguing that historical exclusion of women of childbearing potential from trials after the thalidomide scandal contributed to delayed diagnosis, misrecognition of disease patterns, and poorer outcomes. The authors describe how gendered assumptions in healthcare can affect treatment of pain, and they highlight underdiagnosed women-specific conditions such as endometriosis-associated pelvic pain and pelvic congestion syndrome, noting that women were more recently included in trials since 1993. The editorial introduces a themed set of articles on interventional radiology topics including uterine artery embolization with attention to symptomatic adenomyosis and fertility, ovarian vein embolization for pelvic congestion syndrome, fallopian tube recanalization, and deep venous stenting. The paper does not provide new interventional outcomes itself, and it is explicitly a commentary rather than an empirical study. Relevance to endometriosis: endometriosis is explicitly mentioned in the context of pelvic pain being poorly understood and underdiagnosed, though the paper’s main focus is broader gender bias in women’s health and an overview of an interventional radiology issue.

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