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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2016 Dec;100(12):2729–2734. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001059

Table 2.

Recipient characteristics by development of right heart failure (RHF)

No RHF
(n=158)
RHF
(n=34)
p-value
Age (IQR) (years) 7.6 (1.5–13.9) 10.6 (3.2–13.6) 0.24
BSA (IQR) (m^2) 0.84 (.43–1.4) 1.1 (.6–1.4) 0.25
Gender (% female) 76 (48.1%) 14 (41.2%) 0.57
Cardiac diagnosis, on admission - - 0.07
  Cardiomyopathy 100 (63.3%) 14 (41.2%)
  Congenital 44 (27.9%) 13 (38.2%)
  Retransplant 9 (5.7%) 4 (11.8%)
Ventilator support, pre-operative 22 (13.9%) 3 (8.8%) 0.58
High-dose or multiple inotropes 101 (63.9%) 26 (76.5%) 0.23
VAD, pre-operative 21 (13.3%) 3 (8.8%) 0.58
ECMO, pre-operative 9 (5.7%) 3 (8.8%) 0.45
PVRi, pre-operative (IQR) (WU × m2) 2.7 (1.8–4.3) 4.4 (1.8–8.6) 0.01
Graft cold ischemic time (mins) 204.8 ± 64.2 197.7 ± 54.8 0.55
Cardiopulmonary bypass time (mins) 153.7 ± 59.4 163.2 ± 45.6 0.40