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SUBMITTER: Ferreira RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4573536 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferreira Renata G RG Worthington Andrea A Huang Chuan-Chin CC Aranki Sary F SF Muehlschlegel Jochen D JD
Journal of cardiac surgery 20150109 3
<h4>Objectives</h4>The mortality from diastolic dysfunction is approximately 9% to 28%. In patients with ischemic heart disease, female sex and advanced age are associated with increases in ventricular diastolic stiffness. Clinical studies have found higher rates of diastolic dysfunction in women, despite higher ejection fractions, than in men post-myocardial infarction. Therefore, we hypothesized that female patients undergoing cardiac surgery have higher degrees of diastolic dysfunction and ex ...[more]