Table 5:
Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) After Liver Transplant in Relation to Echocardiographic Variables via Cox Proportional Hazards Using Inverse Probability Treatment Weighting (Controlled for Pre-Transplant Diabetes Mellitus)
MACE | Arrhythmia | Heart Failure | Cardiac Arrest or Cardiac Death | All-Cause Mortality | ||||||
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Echocardiographic Variables | Hazard Ratio | P value | Hazard Ratio | P value | Hazard Ratio | P value | Hazard Ratio | P value | Hazard Ratio | P value |
Ejection Fraction | 0.99 | 0.75 | 1.04 | 0.40 | 0.95 | 0.39 | 0.97 | 0.47 | 1.02 | 0.52 |
Septal eā | 0.71 | 0.002 | 0.99 | 0.93 | 0.48 | <0.001 | 0.62 | 0.006 | 0.79 | 0.02 |
Lateral eā | 0.88 | 0.04 | 0.98 | 0.85 | 0.76 | 0.02 | 0.85 | 0.11 | 0.93 | 0.22 |
Average E/eā Ratio | 1.07 | 0.17 | 0.98 | 0.79 | 1.17 | 0.02 | 1.11 | 0.12 | 1.02 | 0.66 |
Tricuspid Regurgitant Maximal Velocity | 1.07 | 0.88 | 0.79 | 0.74 | 0.86 | 0.82 | 3.95 | 0.001 | 1.49 | 0.32 |
Left Atrial Volume Index | 1.02 | 0.18 | 1.00 | 0.89 | 1.03 | 0.37 | 1.04 | 0.15 | 1.02 | 0.22 |
E/A Ratio | 0.27 | 0.002 | 0.48 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.40 | 0.12 | 0.36 | 0.01 |
Mitral Valve Deceleration Time | 1.0 | 0.23 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 1.00 | 0.76 | 1.01 | 0.05 | 1.00 | 0.52 |