Sex-based difference in anticoagulated patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves and long-term mortality risk.
Daniele PastoriDaniela PoliEmilia AntonucciDanilo MenichelliFrancesco VioliGualtiero PalaretiPasquale Pignatellinull nullPublished in: International journal of clinical practice (2021)
Female sex is independently associated with mitral/mitro-aortic MPHV. Despite a lower TiTR in women, mortality risk did not differ between the two groups.
Keyphrases
- aortic valve
- left ventricular
- mitral valve
- aortic stenosis
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- heart failure
- aortic valve replacement
- left atrial
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- atrial fibrillation
- pregnancy outcomes
- type diabetes
- pregnant women
- transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- metabolic syndrome
- cervical cancer screening
- skeletal muscle
- aortic dissection
- pulmonary arterial hypertension