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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2023 Oct 18;43(3):461–470. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2023.10.013

Table 5:

Univariable survival analysis post DCD heart transplantation

Determinants of DCD Survival Univariable HR (95%CI) P value
Recipients’ characteristics
Age 1.03 (0.99–1.06) 0.119
Male sex 0.73 (0.34–1.59) 0.436
Inotropes 0.32 (0.96–1.04) 0.059
Mechanical Ventilation 8.69 (1.15–65.2) 0.036
Renal dysfunction 1.56 (0.77–3.18) 0.221
Hepatic dysfunction 0.78 (0.29–2.04) 0.607
VAD 1.23 (0.61–2.50) 0.555
IABP 0.86 (0.26–2.83) 0.805
ECMO 5.32 (0.71–39.3) 0.234
Donors’ characteristics
Age 0.96 (0.92–1.01) 0.248
Male sex 0.86 (0.30–2.45) 0.774
Hypertension 0.87 (0.26–2.89) 0.832
Diabetes mellitus 0.00 (0-inf) 0.604
Renal dysfunction 0.71 (0.29–1.73) 0.455
Hepatic dysfunction 1.65 (0.74–3.68) 0.225
Ejection fraction (<50%) 2.28 (0.54–9.60) 0.258
Ischemic time (>4 hrs) 2.23 (0.85–5.85) 0.224