Women are older than men and have more hypertension, and diabetes. Women are more acutely ill at time of surgery, with more unstable angina and congestive heart failure than men. Women have twice the operative mortality of men, probably related to smaller body surface area and coronary vessel size. Similar to CABG, women are older than men with more cardiac risk factors.
Women have more unstable angina and congestive heart failure than men.
Success rate similar for men and women. Women have a 1.4 times higher complication rate than men. Recent studies suggest that in-hospital and long term mortality following angioplasty in a select group of women with multivessel CAD is similar to that of men.