Gender Differences in Outcome After Coronary Revascularization

Gender Differences in the Pathogenesis and Management of Heart Disease

“…Modern-day aggressive therapies such as percutaneous and surgical coronary interventions are recommended less often to women than men. Although the precise basis for differences in outcome after percutaneous and surgical coronary interventions in women and men is not clear, it may relate to more extensive disease as well as small size of the coronary arteries in women which may be the basis of restenosis after bypass surgery or percutaneous coronary stenting [7]. All this leads to poor outcome in women as compared with that in men.…”