Short-Term Cardiac and Noncardiac Mortality Following Liver Transplantation

Table 2

Cardiac events in the liver transplant population at MCA (N = 393).

	$N$	Events	Event Rate	Deaths	Event Type and Period
					No Death			Death
					IO	PO	PD	IO	PO	PD
Age $<$ 50	138	7	5%	0	4	3	0	0	0	0
No Cardiac Risk Factors	43	1	2%	0	AR: 1	0	0	0	0	0
Cardiac Risk Factors	95	6	6%	0	3	3	0	0	0	0
DSE	40	4	10%	0	AR: 3	HF: 1
No DSE	55	2	4%	0		MI: 1, HF: 1
Age  $>$ 50	255	19	8%	3	7	9	0	2	0	1
DSE	193	15	8%	2	AR: 4; MI: 1	MI: 4; HF: 3; AR: 1	0	AR: 2	0
Non-DSE stress/cath	35	4	11%	1	AR: 2	HF: 1				HF: 1
No stress test	27	0	0%	0

AR: arrhythmia, cath: cardiac catheterization, DSE: Preoperative dobutamine stress echocardiogram, HF: heart failure, IO: intraoperative, MI: myocardial infarction, PO: perioperative period up until hospital discharge, and PD: time period from hospital discharge to 4 months posttransplant.