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Gender Difference Outcomes after Coronary Artery Surgery

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool L12 2AP, United Kingdom

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I read with great interest the article by Perek et al¹ in the December issue assessing the early results of isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in women and determining the reasons for high morbidity and mortality in the female gender after coronary artery surgery. Although the authors suggest that females do worse after coronary artery surgery yet there are some inherent weaknesses in their study like most other published studies^2–7 and therefore extreme caution needs to be exercised while interpreting the findings of their study.

Many studies examining gender differences outcomes after CABG report a higher unadjusted postoperative morbidity and mortality for women compared . . . [Full Text of this Article]