Background:

The outcome and treatment of cardiovascular disease in women differ among international studies.

Objective:

The aim of this study was to compare in-hospital mortality and complications with mortality and complications at 60 days following isolated or combined coronary artery bypass graft surgery between women and men.

Methods:

The outcomes during hospitalization and at 60 days following isolated or combined coronary artery bypass graft surgery procedures performed between 2011 and 2017 were retrospectively analyzed. Perioperative variables, expected all-cause mortality estimated by EuroSCORE II and observed all-cause mortality were compared. A propensity score analysis was performed to match female and male populations.

Results:

Of the 1670 isolated or combined coronary artery bypass graft procedures, 27.4% (n=457) were performed in women, and 185 (14.2%) of 1305 isolated surgeries corresponded to women. Mortality in women at 30 and 60 days was 2.7% and 4.3%. respectively, vs. 2.1% (RR: 1.26; 95% CI, 0.49-3.26; p=0.632) and 2.3% (RR: 1.86; 95% CI, 0.86-4.05, p=0.113, power 53%), respectively, in men. After analyzing the propensity score of patients undergoing isolated revascularization procedures, 60-day mortality in women was 4.0% vs. 2.3% in men (RR: 1.75; 95% CI; 0.52-5.87, p=0.359).

Conclusions:

Compared with men, women undergoing isolated or combined coronary artery bypass graft surgery were older and had higher expected risk calculated by EuroSCORE II and worse renal function. Mortality after isolated or combined coronary artery bypass graft surgery was higher in women than in men at 60 days, and this difference remained even after adjusting for confounders.