Endovascular Abdominal Aneurysm Repair in Women: What are the Differences Between the Genders?

ABSTRACT Introduction: Abdominal aortic aneurysm has a lower incidence in the female population, but a higher complication rate. It was been hypothesized that some anatomical differences of abdominal aortic aneurysm in women could be responsible for that. We proposed to analyze our data to understa...

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Main Authors: Rui Machado, Gabriela Teixeira, Pedro Oliveira, Luís Loureiro, Carlos Pereira, Rui Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular
Series:Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-76382016000300232&lng=en&tlng=en