RESEARCH ARTICLE
Gender-Specific Differences in Outcome of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Surgery Carsten J. Beller☯*, Mina Farag☯, Sepali Wannaku, Philipp Seppelt, Rawa Arif, Arjang Ruhparwar, Matthias Karck, Alexander Weymann, Klaus Kallenbach Heart Centre Heidelberg, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. *
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Abstract Objectives
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Beller CJ, Farag M, Wannaku S, Seppelt P, Arif R, Ruhparwar A, et al. (2015) Gender-Specific Differences in Outcome of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Surgery. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0124461. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0124461 Academic Editor: Dragana Nikitovic-Tzanakaki, University of Crete, GREECE
Gender specific differences receive increasing attention and are known to affect the outcome of cardiovascular diseases. We investigated possible risk-factors for gender-specific differences in ascending aortic aneurysm surgery.
Methods 548 consecutive patients (male: n = 390, age: 58.3±14.4 years; female: n = 158, age: 65.3±12.9 years) with aneurysms of the ascending aorta eligible for cardiac surgery were retrospectively analyzed.
Received: February 4, 2015
Results
Accepted: March 5, 2015
Women were significantly older when operation was indicated (p
