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Sep 2018
Female patients 20 per cent more likely to die after coronary heart disease surgery than men
New research has suggested that female patients are a fifth more likely to die after routine surgery for coronary heart disease than men.
The research follows a ten year study of over 6.6 million patients who received a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) also known as an angioplasty with stent. This procedure is the most common treatment for coronary heart disease and involves the use of a catheter to widen blocked or narrow blood vessels in the heart.
Professor Mamas Mamas, study author, from Keele University, said “We know that women are often less likely to receive evidence-based therapies or have best practice whilst undergoing these procedures, and our analysis shows that even in contemporary practice this remains a problem.”
The results showed that fatalities following the procedure were likely to have occurred due to bleeding, with female patients being 80 per cent more likely to suffer than men.
Professor Mamas went on to say “These differences in clinical outcomes persist even after adjustment for potential confounders and show that women are more likely to die in hospital or suffer a complication than men.”
The researchers believe that, as well as the female participants in the study potentially receiving inferior care, they may have been more likely to die as they were on average five years older than the men, which suggests that they received a later diagnosis.
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Posted by Karen Motley, Paralegal, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (karenmotley@chadlaw.co.uk), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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