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Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2013 Mar 27;95(6):859–865. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31827eef7e

Table 2.

Comparison of vascular geometry and progression of allograft vasculopathy in one year by 3D IVUS in patients with HTx and H+Liver Tx.

	Combined heart liver (n=10)	Heart alone (n=25)	P value
VV/SL (mm³/mm)
Baseline	13.1±3.5	14.9±4.7	0.2^#
Follow up	13.1±3.0	15.6±5.9	0.1^*
Absolute difference	−0.01±3.2	0.64±4.5	0.6^#
Change in %	−4.4±33.6	−1.4±30.3	0.8^#
P-value	0.9^¶	0.5^¶
PV/SL (mm³/mm)
Baseline	4.2±1.9	4.3±1.9	0.8^#
Follow up	4.5±2.0	5.8±2.9	0.1^*
Absolute difference	0.3±1.1	1.5±2.9	0.08^#
Change in %	−1.6±44.0	17.8±37.5	0.2^#
P-value	0.4^¶	0.02^¶
PI (%)
Baseline	0.31±0.1	0.28±0.08	0.5^#
Follow up	0.32±0.11	0.39±0.14	0.2^*
Absolute difference	0.01±0.03	0.1±0.1	0.004^#
Change in %	4.7±11.6	40.2±50.6	0.002^#
P-value	0.2^¶	0.0006^¶

SL: segment length; VV: vessel volume; LV: lumen volume; PV: plaque volume; PI: plaque index; HTx: Heart transplant; H+Liver Tx: combined heart and liver transplant

ANCOVA test; baseline value is a covariate.

T-test

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Paired t test