Sex-Related Differences in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Aortic Surgery: Evidence from the Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative.

CONCLUSIONS: Women experience worse outcomes following thoracic aortic surgery with hypothermic circulatory arrest. Further investigation is required to better delineate which measures may reduce sex-related outcome differences following complex aortic surgery.
PMID: 30755026 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Circulation - February 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Chung J, Stevens LM, Ouzounian M, El-Hamamsy I, Bouhout I, Dagenais F, Cartier A, Peterson M, Boodhwani M, Guo MH, Bozinovski J, Yamashita MH, Lodewyks C, Atoui R, Bittira B, Payne D, Tarola C, Chu MWA, Canadian Thoracic Aortic Collaborative Tags: Circulation Source Type: research