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The female gender has been shown as high-risk factor for mortality and morbidity. We sought to assess the influence of female gender on coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery from our own experience.

This is a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected database from a single centre. Patients were grouped according to gender and potential differences in pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative factors were explored. Significant high-risk factors were then fitted in a multivariate model to account for differences in predicting gender influence on surgical outcomes.

Two thousand eight hundred and four consecutive patients underwent isolated first-time CABG between February 2000 and December 2008; 562 (20 %) patients were females. Pre-operatively, females were …