Early and Mid-term Outcomes in Female Patients Undergoing Isolated Conventional Coronary Surgery.
Author(s) -
Kazım Ergüneş,
Levent Yılık,
Ufuk Yetkin,
Banu Lafçı,
Serdar Bayrak,
Berkan Özpak,
Ali Gürbüz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
pubmed
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2008-6830
pISSN - 2008-5117
DOI - 10.5681/jcvtr.2014.023
Subject(s) - medicine , atrial fibrillation , mortality rate , bypass grafting , diabetes mellitus , artery , observational study , female sex , surgery , cardiology , endocrinology
Several observational studies comparing outcomes between female and male patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have shown that operative mortality rate is higher among female patients than in male patients. However, some conflicting studies report that early mortality among female patients is equivalent to that among male patients. We investigated predictive factors of morbidity, mortality and survival in female patients undergoing isolated conventional CABG.
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