Aritmie e Fibrillazione atriale
Samuel Chauveau, Olivier Le Vavasseur, Elodie Morel, Arnaud Dulac, Philippe Chevalier, Flecainide is a safe and effective treatment for pre-excited atrial fibrillation rapidly conducted to the ventricle in pregnant women: a case series, European Heart Journal - Case Reports, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2019, ytz066, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytz066
Cecilia Linde, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green, Anne B Curtis, Isabel Deisenhofer, Tetsushi Furokawa, Anne M Gillis, Kristina H Haugaa, Gregory Y H Lip, Isabelle Van Gelder, Marek Malik, Jeannie Poole, Tatjana Potpara, Irina Savelieva, Andrea Sarkozy, ESC Scientific Document Group, Sex differences in cardiac arrhythmia: a consensus document of the European Heart Rhythm Association, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society, EP Europace, Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2018, Pages 1565–1565ao, https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euy067
A. Quesada Dorador, A. Prieto Martin, B. Quesada, B. Bochard, J. Jimenez, V. Palanca, B. Trejo, R. Paya, JL. Perez-Bosca, F. Arteaga, C. Albiach, F. Ridocci, C. Fernandez Diaz, J. Belchi, 185 Effect of gender on patient selection for cardiac resynchronisation therapy, EP Europace, Volume 19, Issue suppl_3, June 2017, Page iii19, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/eux137.004
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Impact of gender: rivaroxaban for patients with atrial fibrillation in the XANTUS real-world prospective study, EP Europace, Volume 19, Issue suppl_3, June 2017, Pages iii46–iii47, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/eux141.028
Jim W Cheung, Edward P Cheng, , Xian Wu, Ilhwan Yeo, Paul J Christos, Hooman Kamel, Steven M Markowitz, Christopher F Liu, George Thomas, James E Ip, Bruce B Lerman, Luke K Kim, Sex-based differences in outcomes, 30-day readmissions, and costs following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: the United States Nationwide Readmissions Database 2010–14, European Heart Journal, Volume 40, Issue 36, 21 September 2019, Pages 3035–3043, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz151
Tero Penttilä, Mika Lehto, Jussi Niiranen, Juha Mehtälä, Houssem Khanfir, Riitta Lassila, Pekka Raatikainen, Differences in the risk of stroke, bleeding events, and mortality between female and male patients with atrial fibrillation during warfarin therapy, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 29–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvy026
Craig I Coleman, Alexander G G Turpie, Thomas J Bunz, Daniel Eriksson, Nitesh A Sood, William L Baker, Effectiveness and safety of rivaroxaban vs. warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients with a non-sex-related CHA2DS2-VASc score of 1, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 64–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvy025
Emdin Connor A, Wong Christopher X, Hsiao Allan J, Altman Douglas G, Peters Sanne AE, Woodward Mark et al. Atrial fibrillation as risk factor for cardiovascular disease and death in women compared with men: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies BMJ 2016; 352 :h7013/ DOI:10.1136/bmj.h7013
Qinmei Xiong et al. Asymptomatic versus symptomatic atrial fibrillation: A systematic review of age/gender differences and cardiovascular outcomes. International Journal of Cardiology, 2015; Volume 191, 172 - 177 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.011
Politi, C., Ciarambino, T., Riva, L., Frasson, S., Lucci, D., Gussoni, G., Gonzini, L., Campanini, M., Gulizia, M., Di Pasquale, G., Mathieu, G., & and Investigators, on behalf of A.-A. (2016). Sex-gender and atrial fibrillation treatment in the AntiThrombotic Agents in Atrial Fibrillation (ATA-AF) study. Italian Journal of Medicine, 10(3), 207-212. https://doi.org/10.4081/itjm.2016.649
Gillis, A. M. Atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias: sex differences in electrophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and clinical outcomes. Circulation 135, 593–608 (2017).DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.025312
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Jim W Cheung, Edward P Cheng, Xian Wu, Ilhwan Yeo, Paul J Christos, Hooman Kamel, Steven M Markowitz, Christopher F Liu, George Thomas, James E Ip, Bruce B Lerman, Luke K Kim, Sex-based differences in outcomes, 30-day readmissions, and costs following catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: the United States Nationwide Readmissions Database 2010–14, European Heart Journal, , ehz151, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz151
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Gregory Y.H. Lip, Cécile Laroche, Giuseppe Boriani, Paolo Cimaglia, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan, Massimo Santini, Zbigniew Kalarus, Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, Mircea Ioachim Popescu, Otilia Tica, Camilla Fragtrup Hellum, Bettina Mortensen, Luigi Tavazzi, Aldo P. Maggioni, Sex-related differences in presentation, treatment, and outcome of patients with atrial fibrillation in Europe: a report from the Euro Observational Research Programme Pilot survey on Atrial Fibrillation, EP Europace, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 24–31, https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euu155
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Pancholy SB, Sharma PS, Pancholy DS, Patel TM, Callans DJ, Marchlinski FE. Meta‐analysis of gender differences in residual stroke risk and major bleeding in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation treated with oral anticoagulants. Am J Cardiol. 2014; 113:485–490 DOI:10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.10.035
Antonio Gonzalez-Hermosillo J., Banos-Gonzalez M.A., Guevara-Valdivia M.E., Vazquez-Acosta J.A., de Los Rios Ibarra M.O., Aguilar-Linares K.A., Cantu-Brito C., Leiva-Pons J.L., Pozas-Garza G., Favela-Perez EA., Marquez M.F. Gender differences and management of stroke risk of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation in an upper middle-income country: Insights from the CARMEN-AF registry. Int. J. Cardiol. Heart Vasc. 2019;22:117–122. DOI:10.1016/j.ijcha.2018.12.017
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Infarto miocardico
Alice M Jackson, Ruiqi Zhang, Iain Findlay, Keith Robertson, Mitchell Lindsay, Tamsin Morris, Brian Forbes, Richard Papworth, Alex McConnachie, Kenneth Mangion, Pardeep S Jhund, Colin McCowan, Colin Berry, Healthcare disparities for women hospitalized with myocardial infarction and angina, European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, , qcz040, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcz040
Seong-Mi Park, Janet Wei, Galen Cook-Wiens, Michael D Nelson, Louise Thomson, Daniel Berman, Eileen Handberg, John Petersen, David Anderson, Carl J Pepine, C Noel Bairey Merz, Left ventricular concentric remodelling and functional impairment in women with ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease and intermediate coronary flow reserve: a report from the WISE-CVD study, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages 875–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jez044
Kuan Ken Lee, Amy V. Ferry, Atul Anand, Fiona E. Strachan, Andrew R. Chapman, Dorien M. Kimenai, Steven J.R. Meex, Colin Berry, Iain Findlay, Alan Reid, Anne Cruickshank, Alasdair Gray, Paul O. Collinson, Fred S. Apple, David A. McAllister, Donogh Maguire, Keith A.A. Fox, David E. Newby, Chris Tuck, Catriona Keerie, Christopher J. Weir, Anoop S.V. Shah, Nicholas L. Mills, on behalf of the High-STEACS Investigators Sex-Specific Thresholds of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Patients With Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019 Oct, 74 (16) 2032-2043.DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2019.07.082
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Stephan Achenbach, Coronary calcium: ‘bad news’ for men, but even ‘worse news’ for women?, European Heart Journal, Volume 39, Issue 41, 01 November 2018, Pages 3736–3738, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy630
Wenger, N.K. (2018). Sauce for the Goose Versus Sauce for the Gander: Should Men and Women Play the Same Game But With Different Rules? Circulation, 137 8, 791-793 . DOI:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.033168
Lichtman JH, Leifheit EC, Safdar B, Bao H, Krumholz HM, Lorenze NP, et al. Sex differences in the presentation and perception of symptoms among young patients with myocardial infarction: evidence from the VIRGO study (variation in recovery: role of gender on outcomes of young AMI patients). Circulation. 2018;137(8):781–90. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031650.
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Christine Pacheco, Janet Wei, Margo Minissian, Chrisandra L Shufelt, Sarah J Kilpatrick, Odayme Quesada, C Noel Bairey Merz, Cardiovascular and pregnancy outcomes in women with coronary microvascular dysfunction: a case series, European Heart Journal - Case Reports, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2019, ytz071, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcr/ytz071
Puglisi R, Mattia G, Carè A, Marano G, Malorni W, Matarrese P. Non-genomic Effects of Estrogen on Cell Homeostasis and Remodeling With Special Focus on Cardiac Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury. Front. Endocrinol., 25 October 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00733
Scompenso cardiaco
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Altro
Marieke T Blom, Iris Oving, Jocelyn Berdowski, Irene G M van Valkengoed, Abdenasser Bardai, Hanno L Tan, Women have lower chances than men to be resuscitated and survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, European Heart Journal, , ehz297, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz297
Karin A L Mueller, David B Hanna, Erik Ehinger, Xiaonan Xue, Livia Baas, Meinrad P Gawaz, Tobias Geisler, Kathryn Anastos, Mardge H Cohen, Stephen J Gange, Sonya L Heath, Jason M Lazar, Chenglong Liu, Wendy J Mack, Igho Ofotokun, Phyllis C Tien, Howard N Hodis, Alan L Landay, Robert C Kaplan, Klaus Ley, Loss of CXCR4 on non-classical monocytes in participants of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) with subclinical atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular Research, Volume 115, Issue 6, 01 May 2019, Pages 1029–1040, https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvy292
Ian D van Koeverden, Marie de Bakker, Saskia Haitjema, Sander W van der Laan, Jean-Paul P M de Vries, Imo E Hoefer, Gert J de Borst, Gerard Pasterkamp, Hester M den Ruijter, Testosterone to oestradiol ratio reflects systemic and plaque inflammation and predicts future cardiovascular events in men with severe atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular Research, Volume 115, Issue 2, 01 February 2019, Pages 453–462, https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvy188
Michael Fiechter, Andrea Roggo, Irene A Burger, Susan Bengs, Valerie Treyer, Anton Becker, Monika Marȩdziak, Ahmed Haider, Angela Portmann, Michael Messerli, Dimitri Patriki, Urs J Mühlematter, Elia von Felten, Dominik C Benz, Tobias A Fuchs, Christoph Gräni, Aju P Pazhenkottil, Ronny R Buechel, Philipp A Kaufmann, Catherine Gebhard, Association between resting amygdalar activity and abnormal cardiac function in women and men: a retrospective cohort study, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2019, Pages 625–632, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jez047
J Tamargo, G Rosano, T Walther, J Duarte, A Niessner, JC Kaski, C Ceconi, H Drexel, K Kjeldsen, G Savarese, C Torp-Pedersen, D Atar, BS Lewis, S Agewall, Gender differences in the effects of cardiovascular drugs, European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2017, Pages 163–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvw042
Takeo Onose, Yasuhiko Sakata, Kotaro Nochioka, Masanobu Miura, Takeshi Yamauchi, Kanako Tsuji, Ruri Abe, Takuya Oikawa, Shintaro Kasahara, Masayuki Sato, Takashi Shiroto, Satoshi Miyata, Jun Takahashi, Hiroaki Shimokawa, on behalf of the CHART-2 Investigators, Sex differences in post-traumatic stress disorder in cardiovascular patients after the Great East Japan Earthquake: a report from the CHART-2 Study, European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, Volume 3, Issue 3, July 2017, Pages 224–233, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcx009
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Diabete
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Metabolismo
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Recettori per estrogeni
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