The difference in bypass surgery in men and women?

Answer 1

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Summary

* Bypass surgery is a procedure that uses a healthy vessel to create a detour for blood to flow around an artery that is blocked by fatty plaque buildup
* Bypass surgery is a relatively safe procedure in women; serious complications are rare but may include heart attack, stroke, or death
* Women are slightly more likely to die in the hospital after bypass surgery than men largely because women are older and in worse health by the time they undergo surgery
* In the long-term, women and men do equally well after bypass surgery
* In patients younger than 50 who have bypass surgery, women have worse outcomes than men
* After surgery, women usually stay in the hospital longer than men, and need more blood transfusions; they also have a more difficult emotional and physical recovery
* Neurological complications after surgery including stroke and memory problems are more common in women than in men
* Emergency bypass surgery (such as during a heart attack, or if an angioplasty procedure goes wrong) is a riskier procedure than planned bypass
* Women are more likely than men to have emergency bypass surgery
* Bypass is preferred to medication alone for most patients except low-risk patients with mild heart disease, or those for whom surgery or angioplasty is too risky
* Both bypass surgery and angioplasty with stenting are good treatment options for many patients; you will recover more quickly from angioplasty, but you are more likely to require repeat procedures
* Based on the number and severity of blockages and your treatment preference, your doctor will help you decide whether bypass or angiplasty is best for you
* Patients with 2 or more blocked arteries, especially those with diabetes, may do better with bypass surgery
* Women have smaller arteries than men, so their bypass grafts are more likely to become blocked over the long-term
* Beating heart surgery allows you to receive a bypass graft without stopping the heart, which may reduce the rate of some complications and lead to a faster recovery
* In some patients, minimally invasive bypass surgery can be performed without opening the chest, allowing a faster recovery
* Endoscopic vein harvesting is an alternative method of removing the leg vein to make the bypass graft; it leaves a smaller leg wound that heals faster
* Compared with a vein from the leg, women who receive a bypass graft using an artery from the chest wall have better survival and spend less time in the hospital after surgery
* Women are less likely to receive chest wall artery grafts than men
* You should choose a hospital that performs at least 500 bypass surgeries per year, and a surgeon who performs at least 100

Answer 2

The tecnique is the same but women usually have smaller coronary arteries. The disease process that causes blockages is basically the same but women tend to get it later in life.