Female Gender in Cardiac Surgery: Is it Still a Significant Risk? A Retrospective Study in Saudi Arabia.
Khaled Ebrahim Al-EbrahimAbdullah Hisham BaghaffarMazin Adel FataniLamis Awad AlassiriShomokh Abdullah AlbishriAtheer Mohammed AlthaqafiReem Abdulkhaliq AlghamdiNura Fikri AlshoaibiSeba Saad AlgarniMarah Meshal AlsulamiSaud Abdulaziz AlbukhariAbdullah Khalid AlassiriAhmed Abdelrahman ElassalPublished in: The heart surgery forum (2023)
Females in Saudi Arabia have an increased risk of short-term morbidity and mortality after cardiac surgery compared to males. Vague and delayed presentation and then the late diagnosis and referral are likely the main contributing factors. This highlights the need to implement preoperative measures to improve early diagnosis and referral to eliminate gender bias.