Cardiogenic Shock: Evolution According to Gender in Latin America

Cardiogenic shock is still the most important cause of death in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction. When insufficient evidence is available and mortality still high, evidence from observational data is important and additive to randomized data. This is particularly true for sex specific differences in cardiogenic shock because often women are underrepresented in the large-scale randomized controlled trials. As such, it can only be supported to see the publication of the LATIN Shock registry . The LATIN Shock registry supports no relevant outcome differences in cardiogenic shock based on sex. More efforts should be directed towards cardiogenic shock registries and a higher number of patients will help to define the best treatment strategies to improve outcome in cardiogenic shock also with respect to sex specific differences.