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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2012 Sep 22;146(5):1126–1132.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.08.061

TABLE 3.

Preoperative risk factors associated with greater (worse) postoperative MPI

Factor Estimate ± SE P
value
Reliability
(%)*
Overall
  Greater preoperative TR 100
    1+vs 0 0.098 ± 0.022 <.0001
    2+vs 0 0.16 ± 0.024 <.0001
    3+/4+vs 0 0.12 ± 0.036 .0009
  History of COPD 0.12 ± 0.027 <.0001 95
  Higher heart rate 0.034 ± 0.019 .07 50
  Older age 0.038 ± 0.015 .01 88
  Larger LA volume index§ 0.039 ± 0.018 .03 85
  Lower MR −0.059 ± 0.028 .03 42
  TV procedure 0.036 ± 0.032 .3
Early phase
  History of hypertension 0.033 ± 0.016 .04 42
  Greater mean systemic arterial pressure −6.7 ± 4.02 .09 58
  Greater preoperative MPI 0.055 ± 0.028 .05 58
Late phase
  None

COPD, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; LA, left atrial; MPI, myocardial performance index; MR, mitral regurgitation; SE, standard error; TR, tricuspid regurgitation; TV, tricuspid valve.

*

Percentage of times factor appeared in 500 bootstrap models.

(75/heart rate), inverse transformation.

(Age/50)2, squared transformation.

§

Ln(LA volume index), natural logarithmic transformation.

(1/mean arterial pressure), inverse transformation.

MPI2, squared transformation.