Coronary Revascularization in Women in 2003

Coronary revascularization in women in 2003: sex revisited.

During the past 3 decades, numerous and remarkably consistent studies have reported sex differences in the epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease,1 and, especially noteworthy, in the sex differences in patients undergoing coronary revascularization, where a disturbingly higher mortality rate has been noted in women.2,3 In fact, multiple parad...

Coronary Revascularization in Patients

Thirty-two thousand patients are presently maintained in chronic dialysis programs. Cardiovascular complications have been shown to be responsible for 50 to 65% of the deaths in such patients. Despite this and the increasingly frequent use of coronary bypass surgery in the general population, only two patients have previously been reported to have successfully undergone coronary bypass surgery ...

Turf battles in coronary revascularization.

Coronary Revascularization in the Community

Results Revascularization utilization increased by 24% during the study (95% confidence interval [CI] 5% to 46%), but the trends diverged by procedure type, with a sustained increase (69%, 95% CI 43% to 101%) for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) contrasting with a stabilization, then decline ( 33%, 95% CI 16% to 47%) for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). For PCI, although the use...

Better Outcome for Women Compared With Men Undergoing Coronary Revascularization

Background—Numerous studies have shown that women undergoing coronary revascularization procedures do so at a higher risk for an adverse outcome compared with men. However, the impact of advances in technology and improvements in techniques on in-hospital and long-term outcome after revascularization in women is unclear. Methods and Results—We evaluated 1829 patients with symptomatic multivesse...