TABLE 2.

Patient outcomes.

Postoperative and survival outcomes with and without clinically significant airway ischemia
	CSAI (N = 82)	Non-CSAI (N = 135)	p-values
Postoperative Outcomes
PGD grade 3 at 48–72 h	24 (29.3%)	40 (29.6%)	0.95
Post-Op ECMO	11 (13.4%)	15 (11.1%)	0.61
Ventilator Support >5 days	24 (29.3%)	37 (27.4%)	0.77
Atrial Fibrillation	36 (43.9%)	60 (44.4%)	0.94
Major Bleeding	11 (13.4%)	10 (7.4%)	0.15
Acute Cellular Rejection	9 (11%)	8 (5.9%)	0.19
Hospital Length of Stay	32.68 (30.13)	25.90 (29.64)	0.12
ICU Length of Stay	20.77 (26.38)	15.43 (21.48)	0.11
Hospital Readmission within 1 year	66 (52.4%)	103 (39.6%)	0.09
Tracheostomy	21 (25.6%)	30 (22.2%)	0.57
Dialysis	12 (14.6%)	13 (9.6%)	0.27
Pneumonia	20 (24.4%)	23 (17.0%)	0.19
Survival
90-day	78 (95.1%)	131 (97%)	0.47
1 year	66 (80.5%)	124 (91.9%)	0.05
3 years	55 (67.1%)	105 (77.8%)	0.08

Continuous variables expressed as Mean (SD); Categorical variables expressed as frequency (%).

CSAI: clinically significant airway ischemia, PGD: primary graft dysfunction.