Pre-operative pulmonary artery pulsatility index does not predict mortality post-cardiac transplantation.
Nicole BartSara Louise HungerfordSam EmmanuelEugene KotlyarAnne KeoghPeter MacDonaldDavid MullerChristopher HaywardPublished in: ESC heart failure (2023)
The PAPi was not able to discriminate mortality outcomes for patients post-cardiac transplantation. Pulmonary vascular resistance remains a marker of mortality in an LVAD cohort bridged to transplant (central illustration).
Keyphrases
- pulmonary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- cardiovascular events
- coronary artery
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- risk factors
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- left ventricular
- newly diagnosed
- prognostic factors
- cardiovascular disease
- cell therapy
- coronary artery disease
- stem cells
- bone marrow
- metabolic syndrome
- left ventricular assist device