Revista portuguesa de cardiologia : orgão oficial da Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia = Portuguese journal of cardiology : an official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology
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Comparative Study
[Coronary disease in the postmenopausal woman. The experience of an intensive care unit over 10 years].
Analysis of the characteristics of acute myocardial infarction in female patients admitted to a coronary care unit during a 10 year period. ⋯ The probability of the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction is very low in premenopausal women. The M:F ratio decreases with aging. The risk of death progressively increases with age, and it is significantly higher in females in relation to males after the age of 60 years. Women, besides being older, have a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease risk factors, namely hypertension, diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia.
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As fungal endocarditis is a serious disease, frequently requiring cardiac surgery, a review was made of the experience of our Departments in this pathology. ⋯ Candida infective endocarditis has a bad prognosis, specially in those patients not operated early; it develops in patients with predisposing factors, which in our series were a previous infective endocarditis (four patients) and/or a prosthetic valve implantation less than one year before; it has important morbidity with multiple embolic events, perivalvular involvement, valvular regurgitation and heart failure.