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(2) Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 139 patients (68 males, 71 females) who underwent Perceval AVR between 2016 and 2020. PPM was defined per Valve Academic Research Consortium-3 (VARC-3) criteria using indexed effective orifice area (EOAi) and stratified by body-mass-index (BMI) (&lt;30 vs. \u226530 kg\/m2). Echocardiography assessed hemodynamic performance. (3) Results: PPM was markedly more frequent in women than men (74.6% vs. 22.1%, p &lt; 0.001). Among non-obese patients, 47.9% of females versus 16.2% of males developed PPM (p &lt; 0.001). Women received smaller valves and consistently exhibited lower EOAi despite similar gradients. Postoperatively, females had reduced EOAi (0.8 vs. 0.9 cm2\/m2, p &lt; 0.001) but higher LV ejection fraction (55.8% vs. 49.5%, p = 0.004). Early clinical outcomes were comparable between sexes. (4) Conclusions: Despite favorable hemodynamics of sutureless AVR, anatomical sex differences result in persistently higher PPM rates in women, predominantly of moderate severity. Tailored strategies\u2014including aortic root enlargement and sex-specific EOAi thresholds\u2014may improve prosthesis selection and outcomes in female patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcdd13020071","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,2]],"date-time":"2026-02-02T16:12:37Z","timestamp":1770048757000},"page":"71","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Sex-Related Differences in Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Following Aortic Valve Replacement with Perceval Sutureless Valve"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Ali","family":"Aljalloud","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, 52074 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0565-7795","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yusuf","family":"Shieba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Qena University, Qena 83523, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2243-8743","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rashad","family":"Zayat","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, 52074 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ajay","family":"Moza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, 52074 Aachen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ahmed Farghal Ahmed","family":"Mohammed","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cardiac Surgery, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, 52074 Aachen, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Qena University, Qena 83523, Egypt"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"253","DOI":"10.1016\/j.amjmed.2016.10.005","article-title":"Aortic stenosis: Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapy","volume":"130","author":"Joseph","year":"2017","journal-title":"Am. 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