Gender disparities in high-risk angioplasty: Still room for improvement

Jorge A Belardi¹, Pablo M Lamelas^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Therapeutics, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Jorge A Belardi et al. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 1;96(3):545-546.

doi: 10.1002/ccd.29207.

Jorge A Belardi¹, Pablo M Lamelas^{1

2}

¹ Department of Interventional Cardiology and Endovascular Therapeutics, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
² Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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Comment on

Sex-related difference in the use of percutaneous left ventricular assist device in patients undergoing complex high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention: Insight from the cVAD registry.
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