Is the female gender an independent predictor of adverse outcome after off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1153-1160

  Athanasiou, Thanos ^a   Al Ruzzeh, Sharif ^a   Del Stanbridge, Rex ^a   Casula, Roberto P ^a   Glenville, Brian E ^a   Amrani, Mohamed ^a  

^a HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WOUND INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037386272     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04757-4     Document Type: Article

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