Percutaneous Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
This book describes a wide range of interventional procedures currently employed in the treatment of cardiac diseases in women with the aim of enabling not only interventional cardiologists but also cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to refine their appro
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Patrizia Presbitero Julinda Mehilli Anna Sonia Petronio Editors
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Percutaneous Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
Patrizia Presbitero • Julinda Mehilli Anna Sonia Petronio Editors
Percutaneous Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases in Women
Editors Patrizia Presbitero Interventional Cardiology Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano (Milan) Italy
Anna Sonia Petronio Hemodynamic Laboratory Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana Pisa Italy
Julinda Mehilli Interventional Cardiology Klinik der Universität München München Bayern Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-39609-5 ISBN 978-3-319-39611-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39611-8
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Preface
For over a decade, the scientific community has been attempting to shed light on whether the disparities in clinical presentation and response to treatment for many cardiovascular diseases in men and women are due to variations in biological patterns or to social and cultural conventions leading to different attitudes toward diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases. Since the first percutaneous interventions in the cardiovascular system, it was observed that women experience more procedural complications such as arterial dissections, bleeding, spasm etc. This raises the question of whether this is due to late presentation and mismanagement or to a different arterial disease pathophysiology. It is now well known that compared to their male counterparts, women diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases are older, present more frequently with comorbidities (diabetes, hypertension, renal insufficiency, inflammatory diseases), have more physical and cardiac dysfunction as well as a lower overall quality of life. In most cardiovascular disea
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