Why the study?
Does female sex worsen outcomes in patients with Type A aortic dissection?
Does female sex worsen outcomes in patients with Type A aortic dissection?
Women with Type A aortic dissection present older and sicker, and experience a more aggressive preoperative course with worse survival and neurological outcomes compared to men.
Women with Type A aortic dissection may need heightened vigilance; observational data leave open whether sex-specific strategies improve equity.
Women represent an older and sicker patient collective. Preoperative course of aortic dissection type A is more aggressive and complicated in women. While time from onset of symptoms to surgery did not differ between gender, neurological outcome and survival were impaired in women.
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