Incidence and Risk Factors for Stroke After Combined Heart-Kidney and Heart-Liver Transplantation.

Armaan Fazal AkbarSorush RokuiAlice L ZhouAhmet KilicElizabeth KingSung-Min Cho

Published in: Clinical transplantation (2024)

Stroke is more common after HKT and HLT than after isolated heart transplant, and results in poor survival. Independent risk factors for stroke include pre-transplant percutaneous VAD (HKT) and postoperative dialysis (HKT and HLT).

Keyphrases

atrial fibrillation
heart failure
chronic kidney disease
patients undergoing
cerebral ischemia
brain injury
subarachnoid hemorrhage