Pre-Liver Transplant Cardiac Catheterization Is Associated With Low Rate of Myocardial Infarction and Cardiac Mortality.
Issa KutkutRayan Jo RachwanLava R TimsinaMarwan S GhabrilMarco A LacerdaChandrashekhar A KubalPatrick D BourdillonRichard S MangusPublished in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (2020)
Stress echocardiography alone is not reliable in screening LT patients for CAD. Aggressive CAD screening with CATH is associated with low rate of MI and cardiac mortality and validates the previously published protocol when extrapolated over a larger sample and longer follow-up period.