In general, women present to hospital with symptoms and signs of coronary artery disease at a later age than males; furthermore, they often present with atypical symptoms. While a large amount of work has been directed towards examining sex differences in mortality, few studies have taken into account age difference when doing so. […]
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Gender differences in the treatment of mitral valve prolapse
Mitral regurgitation (MR) may occur secondary to mitral value prolapsed (MVP), the latter having an estimated prevalence of 2.5% in the population. Severity of MR has been shown to be the main driver of outcome and also left ventricular and atrial changes, so surgical intervention remains the treatment of choice for MVP with severe MR. […]