ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2008
Cardiac evaluation of liver transplant candidates.
Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.
- Guideline
- 3rd Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologiaGuideline
- Early Atropine Protocol Enhances Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in End-Stage Liver Disease: A Practical Cardiac Risk Stratification Tool Before Liver Transplantation.Annals of transplantation · 2025Article
- Guideline for Perioperative Cardiovascular Evaluation of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology - 2024.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Article
- How non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cirrhosis affect the heart.Hepatology international · 2023Review
- Cardiac imaging for the assessment of patients being evaluated for liver transplantation.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2022Review
- Prognostic Value of Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography for Long-Term Major Adverse Cardiac Events after Liver Transplantation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Exercise Performance in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Related Cardiac Function.Pediatric cardiology · 2018Article
- Liver Transplantation in the Obese Cirrhotic Patient.Transplantation · 2017Review
- Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Combination with Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring for the Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation of Liver Transplant Recipients.BioMed research international · 2017Review
- Significance of Abnormal Myocardial Perfusion Scans in Candidates for Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.The journal of Tehran Heart Center · 2017Article
- Refractory Hypotension after Liver Allograft Reperfusion: A Case of Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction.Frontiers in medicine · 2016Article
- Coronary Interventions before Liver Transplantation Might Not Avert Postoperative Cardiovascular Events.Texas Heart Institute journal · 2015Article
- Impact of hyponatremia on frequency of complications in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis.Electronic physician · 2015Article
- Diastolic cardiac dysfunction is a predictor of dismal prognosis in patients with liver cirrhosis.Hepatology international · 2014Article
- Utility of dobutamine stress echocardiography as part of the pre-liver transplant evaluation: an evaluation of its efficacy.Clinical cardiology · 2014Article
- Hepato-cardiac disorders.World journal of hepatology · 2014Review
- High Flow-Mediated Vasodilatation Predicts Pulmonary Edema in Liver Transplant Patients.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2013Article
- Liver transplantation: Advances and perioperative care.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2012Article
- The end-organ impairment in liver cirrhosis: appointments for critical care.Critical care research and practice · 2012Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Physicians previously thought that heart disease was rare in patients with end stage liver disease. However, recent evidence shows that the prevalence of ischemic heart disease and cardiomyopathy is increased in transplant candidates compared to most other surgical candidates. Investigators estimate that up to 26% of all liver transplant candidates have at least one critical coronary artery stenosis and that at least half of these patients will die perioperatively of cardiac complications. Cardiomyopathy also occurs in greater frequency. While all patients with advanced cardiac disease have defects in cardiac performance, a larger than expected number of patients have classical findings of dilated, restrictive and hypertropic cardiomyopathy. This may explain why up to 56% of patients suffer from hypoxemia due to pulmonary edema following transplant surgery. There is considerable controversy on how to screen transplant candidates for the presence of heart disease. Questions focus upon, which patients should be screened and what tests should be used. This review examines screening strategies for transplant candidates and details the prognostic value of common tests used to identify ischemic heart disease. We also review the physiological consequences of cardiomyopathy in transplant candidates and explore the specific syndrome of "cirrhotic cardiomyopathy".
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