COMPARISON OF SURGICAL OUTCOME BETWEEN FEMALE AND MALE PATIENTS WITH ABDOMINOAORTOLLIAC OCCLUSIVE DISEASE

From January 1986 to March 1996, 86 cases have been operated on for abdominoaortoiliac occlusive disease in the hospital. There were 13 female patients who represented 16.3% of all patients. These female patients were assigned to group I and 73 male patients to group II, and were comparatively studied for age distribution, preoperative medical condition, preoperative laboratory data, postoperative complications and surgical results. The average age in the group I and group II were 74.9 and 67.9 years, respectively. There was no significant difference between both groups in preoperative medical condition except that the group I had more patients with coronary artery disease than group II. Therefore, surgical treatment for coronary artery disease was also required in the group I. Postoperative complications more freguenthy occurred in the group I than the group II. One patient died during surgery in each group.