Validation of existing risk scores for mortality prediction after a heart transplant in a Chinese population.

Shanshan ZhengHanwei TangZhe ZhengYunhu SongJie HuangZhongkai LiaoSheng Liu

Published in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2022)

We validated the IMPACT and UNOS scores and the RSSs as predictors of 1-year mortality after a heart transplant, but all 3 risk scores had unsatisfactory discriminative powers that overestimated the observed mortality for the Chinese cohort.

Keyphrases

heart failure
cardiovascular events
risk factors
atrial fibrillation
coronary artery disease