Pretransplant coagulopathy and in-hospital outcomes among heart transplant recipients: a propensity-matched nationwide inpatient sample study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prevalence and contemporary trends of pre-heart transplantation (HT) coagulopathy and associated clinical outcomes have not been studied from a national database.

Hypothesis

Pre-HT coagulopathy is associated with increased in-hospital mortality.

Methods

Among 2454 adult HT recipients from the 2003 to 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample databases, 707 (29%) had pre-HT coagulopathy (defined as a comorbidity variable, based on International Classification of Diseases, Ninthe Revision, Clinical Modification and Diagnosis Related Group codes). We used propensity scores for coagulopathy to assemble a matched cohort of 664 pairs of patients with and without coagulopathy balanced in 54 baseline characteristics.

Results

The prevalence of pre-HT coagulopathy

SUBMITTER: Mujib M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711011 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature