Assessment of independent predictors for long-term mortality between women and men after coronary artery bypass grafting: Are women different from men? Ioannis K. Toumpoulis, MD, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, MD, Sandhya K. Balaram, MD, Chris K. Rokkas, MD, Daniel G. Swistel, MD, Robert C. Ashton, MD, Joseph J. DeRose, MD The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 131, Issue 2, Pages 343-351 (February 2006) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.08.056 Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival plots of men and women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 343-351DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.08.056) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Risk-adjusted Kaplan-Meier survival plots of men and women undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) adjusted for all independent preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative predictors for long-term mortality (age, race, emergency operation, ejection fraction, previous cardiac operation, peripheral vascular disease, ≥1 previous myocardial infarctions, intravenous nitroglycerin, congestive heart failure, malignant ventricular arrhythmia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, preoperative renal failure, preoperative renal failure on dialysis, thrombolysis, off-pump coronary artery bypass, ≥2 arterial grafts, intraoperative stroke, postoperative myocardial infarction, deep sternal wound infection, sepsis and/or endocarditis, gastrointestinal complications, and respiratory failure). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2006 131, 343-351DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.08.056) Copyright © 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions