Early post-transplant elevated pulmonary artery pressure predicts adverse outcome in cardiac recipients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the prognostic value of early post-transplant hemodynamic measurements on 5-year mortality in cardiac recipients (HTx).

Methods

A right heart catheterization was performed in 290 heart transplantation (HTx) recipients at a one-year post-HTx evaluation. To study the effect of post-HTx hemodynamic variables on 5-year outcome, the cohort was stratified into several subgroups. For right atrial pressure (RAP), mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP), pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP), and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), patients with values from the upper 10th percentile (high), were compared with those with values from the remaining lower 90th percentile (normal). For cardiac index (CI), patients with values from the lower 10th percentile (low) were co

SUBMITTER: Bollano E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6872849 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature