Table 5.
Comparison of cardiovascular complications according to vital status.
| Complication | Vital status |
P | Transfer to ICU or in-hospital death |
P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alive (n = 2503) | Died in hospital (n = 360) | No (n = 2034) | Yes (n = 835) | |||
| De novo left ventricular dysfunction | 16 (0.7) | 6 (1.8) | 0.005 | 13 (0.7) | 9 (1.4) | 0.11 |
| Any cardiovascular complication | 423 (16.9) | 97 (26.9) | < 0.001 | 310 (15.2) | 210 (25.1) | < 0.001 |
| Acute coronary syndrome | 27 (1.1) | 9 (2.5) | 0.02 | 24 (1.2) | 11 (1.3) | 0.82 |
| Acute heart failure | 129 (5.2) | 56 (15.6) | < 0.001 | 98 (4.8) | 86 (10.3) | < 0.001 |
| Pericarditis | 16 (0.6) | 3 (0.8) | 0.58 | 14 (0.7) | 5 (0.6) | 0.93 |
| Myocarditis | 15 (0.6) | 7 (1.9) | 0.007 | 11 (0.5) | 11 (1.3) | 0.04 |
| Stroke | 14 (0.6) | 8 (2.2) | 0.001 | 9 (0.4) | 13 (1.6) | 0.004 |
| Acute organ or limb ischaemia | 10 (0.4) | 5 (1.4) | 0.01 | 7 (0.3) | 8 (1.0) | 0.03 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 94 (3.7) | 9 (2.5) | 0.64 | 62 (3.1) | 44 (5.3) | < 0.001 |
| Deep vein thrombosis | 33 (1.3) | 3 (0.8) | 0.39 | 14 (0.7) | 23 (2.8) | < 0.001 |
| Other | 99 (4.0) | 14 (3.9) | 0.73 | 77 (3.8) | 36 (4.3) | 0.62 |
Data are expressed as number (%). Fifteen patients with unknown final status were excluded from the analysis. ICU: intensive care unit.