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Table 2 Clinical management according to gender status

From: Clinical picture, management and risk stratification in patients with cardiogenic shock: does gender matter?

 

Whole cohort (n = 793)

Male (n = 571)

Female (n = 222)

P value

Vasoactive drugs

 Dobutamine

716 (90.3)

530 (92.8)

186 (83.8)

0.001

 Dopamine

62 (7.8)

42 (7.4)

20 (9)

0.435

 Adrenaline

132 (16.6)

95 (16.6)

37 (16.7)

0.992

 Noradrenaline

620 (78.2)

444 (77.8)

176 (79.3)

0.436

 Levosimendan

75 (9.5)

59 (10.3)

16 (7.2)

0.177

 Milrinone

16 (2)

6 (1.1)

10 (4.5)

0.004

Invasive procedures

 Renal replacement therapy

150 (19)

105 (18.5)

45 (20.3)

0.558

 Invasive mechanical ventilation

489 (61.7)

358 (62.7)

131 (59)

0.617

 Non invasive mechanical ventilation

77 (9.7)

53 (9.3)

24 (10.8)

0.597

 Therapeutic hypothermia

43 (5.4)

35 (6.1)

8 (3.6)

0.158

 Swan-Ganz catheter

273 (34.4)

191 (33.5)

82 (36.9)

0.353

 Intraaortic counterpulsation

370 (46.7)

274 (48)

96 (43.2)

0.229

 ECMO

67 (8.4)

53 (9.3)

14 (6.3)

0.176

 Impella®

30 (3.8)

23 (4)

7 (3.2)

0.562

 Levitronix centrimag®

55 (6.9)

40 (7)

15 (6.8)

0.902

 Revascularization

   

0.426

 None

334 (42.1)

233 (40.8)

101 (45.5)

 

 PCI

433 (54.6)

320 (56)

113 (50.9)

 

 Surgical

26 (3.3)

18 (3.2)

8 (3.6)

 
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