Can the female gender influence risk factor identification for aortic valve surgery?
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Can the female gender influence risk factor identification for aortic valve surgery?
We have read the interesting article by Elmistekawy et al. [1], which showed that preoperative haemoglobin (Hb) was an independent predictor of mortality after aortic valve replacement (AVR) [1]. Although the authors defined that anaemia depends on gender and showed no difference in the incidence of preoperative anaemia between both males and females [1], we believe that gender should be consid...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1873-734X,1010-7940
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezu122