The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon
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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg · Jan 2013
Comparative StudyGender-dependent differences in patients undergoing tricuspid valve surgery.
The proportion of women in tricuspid valve (TV) surgery is almost 60% and above, especially in redo surgery. Is there a different epidemiology for male or female patients regarding the incidence of TV regurgitation? Are there differences in the peri- and postoperative outcome in male and female patients? In these questions, we were interested in and investigated our database of patients with isolated TV surgery. ⋯ We were not able to find significant gender-dependent differences in the postoperative outcome after isolated TV surgery, but there seem to be demographic gender-dependent differences regarding the reasons for TV surgery, which could influence the treatment of patients.