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 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.
Gasser et al. (Fri,) studied this question.
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