Surgery

Technology, Awareness Improve Heart Surgery Odds for Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 5th, 1998

Thanks to advances in technology, improved surgical techniques, and possibly doctors' greater sensitivity to gender difference in heart disease, women now seem to do just as well as men after surgical procedures to restore blood flow to the heart.

In a study based on 1,829 people in the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI) -- a randomized trial of patients undergoing either bypass or angioplasty -- researchers found that both the in-hospital death rates and the five-year death rates were the same for both sexes, although women often have more risk factors when they undergo cardiac bypass surgery or angioplasty. The results were the same for both...

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