BACKGROUND Patients with gynecologic cancer have a high risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) like patients with other cancers. However, there is little information on risk factors for VTE during gynecologic surgery and no uniform preventive strategy. Our objectives were to identify risk factors for perioperative VTE in gynecologic patients and establish methods for prevention. METHODS We anal...

We have read the interesting article by Elmistekawy et al. [1], which showed that preoperative haemoglobin (Hb) was an independent predictor of mortality after aortic valve replacement (AVR) [1]. Although the authors defined that anaemia depends on gender and showed no difference in the incidence of preoperative anaemia between both males and females [1], we believe that gender should be consid...