Female sex persists as a significant and independent predictor of periprocedural vascular complications during percutaneous coronary intervention, increasing short- and long-term mortality risk.
What are the intrinsic sex-related factors and bleeding avoidance strategies for preventing vascular complications in women undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention?
This review highlights that female sex remains an independent predictor of PCI-related vascular complications and discusses strategies to mitigate this heightened bleeding risk.
The development of vascular complications is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. While the incidence of percutaneous coronary intervention-related vascular complications has greatly improved over time, female sex still persists as a significant and independent predictor of periprocedural vascular complications, which in turn is associated with a greater risk of short- and long-term mortality. This review provides a contemporary overview of the data on the important issues regarding the risk of percutaneous coronary intervention in women. It examines the intrinsic sex-related factors that may be contributing to women's heightened bleeding risk while also examining the various pharmacologic and procedural bleeding avoidance strategies currently in the literature, with a focus on their potential role and benefit in women specifically.
Kim et al. (Fri,) conducted a review in Percutaneous coronary intervention-related vascular complications. Pharmacologic and procedural bleeding avoidance strategies was evaluated. Female sex persists as a significant and independent predictor of periprocedural vascular complications during percutaneous coronary intervention, increasing short- and long-term mortality risk.
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