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“The cardiac anesthesiologist, cardiologist, interventional cardiologist, and perfusionists all play a key role in getting patients to, and through, a cardiac surgery. The surgeon is only one operator who is part of a larger team; thus, the effect of the individual surgeon on outcomes may be somew...”
Analysis investigates the relationship between patient-surgeon sex concordance and clinical outcomes in cardiac surgery, indicating no significant link.
There was no independent association of patient-surgeon sex concordance with 30-day or 5-year outcomes after cardiac surgery.
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