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Review
. 2015 Jan 26;7(1):10-8.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v7.i1.10.

Coronary artery disease in women: From the yentl syndrome to contemporary treatment

Sofia Vaina  1 , Anastasios Milkas  1 , Christina Crysohoou  1 , Christodoulos Stefanadis  1
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Review

Coronary artery disease in women: From the yentl syndrome to contemporary treatment

Sofia Vaina et al. World J Cardiol. .

Abstract

In recent years attention has been raised to the fact of increased morbidity and mortality between women who suffer from coronary disease. The identification of the so called Yentl Syndrome has emerged the deeper investigation of the true incidence of coronary disease in women and its outcomes. In this review an effort has been undertaken to understand the interaction of coronary disease and female gender after the implementation of newer therapeutic interventional and pharmaceutics' approaches of the modern era.

Keywords: Acute coronary syndromes; Female gender; Invasive treatment; Women coronary disease; Yentl syndrome.

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Mayo clinic percutaneous coronary interventions registry: 12798 pts adjusted 30-d mortality after percutaneous coronary interventions[26].
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Mayo clinic percutaneous coronary interventions registry: 12798 pts Adjusted 1-year mortality after percutaneous coronary interventions[26].
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Freedom from major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events after percutaneous coronary intervention in Arterial Revascularization Therapies Study-Part II[41].
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Freedom from major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events after coronary artery by-pass grafting and percutaneous coronary intervention with bare metal stent and sirolimus eluting stent implantation in women[41].
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