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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013 Apr 6;32(6):603–608. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2013.03.004

Table 3.

Pearson’s Correlations for Variables Associated With Right Ventricular Stroke Work Index

Variable RVSWI

r p-value
Lung allocation score 0.251 0.007
CPET variables
  Peak PetCO2 −0.348 0.001
  VE/VCO2 0.275 0.008
  Peak SpO2 −0.259 0.013
Echocardiograph variables
  IVSTD 0.319 0.001
  RVEDd 0.235 0.019
  RVFAC −0.248 0.013
  Estimated PA 0.382 <0.001
  RVWTD 0.324 0.001
  Mean PAP 0.414 <0.001

CPET, cardiopulmonary exercise testing; Estimated PA, estimated pulmonary artery pressure; IVSTD, interventricular septum wall thickness in diastole; PAP, pulmonary arterial pressure; PetCO2, pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide; RVEDd, right ventricular end-diastolic diameter; RVFAC, right ventricular fractional area change; RVSWI, right ventricular stroke work index; RVWTD, right ventricular wall thickness in diastole; SpO2, oxygen saturation; VCO2, rate of carbon dioxide production; VE, minute ventilation.