SynthesisThe international journal of cardiovascular imaging2013
Dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation: a pooled analysis of accuracy, perioperative and long term cardiovascular prognosis.
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- The Clinical Role and Impact of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Liver Transplantation.Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Diagnostic yield and prognostic utility of Dobutamine stress echocardiography in preoperative assessment of liver transplant candidates: a retrospective study from the Arabian Gulf region.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025Article
- Diagnostic accuracy and cost-effectiveness of the CAR-OLT score in predicting cardiac risk for liver transplantation.World journal of transplantation · 2025Article
- Predicting major adverse cardiovascular events after orthotopic liver transplantation using a supervised machine learning model: A cohort study.World journal of hepatology · 2024Article
- Risk stratification prior to non-cardiac surgery: the role of cardiac CT and MR imaging is underrecognized.European radiology · 2023Article
- High Coronary Artery Calcium Score Is Associated With Increased Major Adverse Cardiac Events After Liver Transplantation.Transplantation direct · 2023Article
- Cardiac risk stratification of the liver transplant candidate: A comprehensive review.World journal of transplantation · 2022Review
- 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
- Cardiovascular manifestation of end-stage liver disease and perioperative echocardiography for liver transplantation: anesthesiologist's view.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2022Review
- Comparison of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring with Dobutamine Stress Echo for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Before Liver Transplantation.Annals of transplantation · 2021Article
- Cardiovascular Evaluation of Liver Transplant Patients by Using Coronary Calcium Scoring in ECG-Synchronized Computed Tomographic Scans.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of cardiac testing for coronary artery disease in potential liver transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2021Review
- Preoperative Evaluation of Coronary Artery Disease in Liver Transplant Candidates: Many Unanswered Questions in Clinical Practice.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- PRO: Cardiac Catheterization Is the Optimal Strategy for Cardiovascular Risk Stratification in This Patient.Clinical liver disease · 2021Review
- Cardiac stress testing and coronary artery disease in liver transplantation candidates: Meta-analysis.World journal of hepatology · 2018Article
- Real World Utility of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography in Predicting Perioperative Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.Korean circulation journal · 2018Article
- The Safety and Utility of Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography for Pre-operative Risk Stratification in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation.Korean circulation journal · 2018Article
- Preoperative dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation.Clinical cardiology · 2018Observational
- Multidisciplinary approach to cardiac and pulmonary vascular disease risk assessment in liver transplantation: An evaluation of the evidence and consensus recommendations.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2018Article
- Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Combination with Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring for the Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation of Liver Transplant Recipients.BioMed research international · 2017Review
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Abstract
Pre-transplant evaluation for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) commonly includes a cardiac evaluation using dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). We performed a quantitative systematic review assessing DSE's use in detecting coronary artery disease (CAD) and predicting perioperative and long term cardiac events in patients undergoing OLT. Published studies in pubmed were accessed using keyword searches and bibliographic review. Included studies evaluated the use of DSE in patients undergoing OLT, including its accuracy for detection of CAD, and in predicting perioperative and long term cardiac prognosis for both hard (myocardial infarction, cardiac death, cardiac arrest, and asystole) and soft cardiac events (all other events that were cardiovascular in nature). We calculated DSE's sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), and positive predictive value (PPV) in the above areas. We identified 7 studies, including a total of 580 patients, which included 4 accuracy studies (n = 110 patients), 4 perioperative studies, and 3 long term studies. Accuracy for CAD included a sensitivity of 0.32, specificity of 0.78, PPV of 0.37, and NPV of 0.75. Accuracy for prediction of perioperative hard and soft cardiac events was a sensitivity of 0.20 and 0, specificity of 0.99 and 0.99, PPV of 0.33 and 0, and NPV of 0.98 and 0.89, respectively. For long term hard and soft cardiac events, sensitivity was 0.5 and 0, specificity 0.99 and 0.98, PPV 0.33 and 0, and NPV 0.99 and 0.96, respectively. DSE has a limited accuracy for the detection of CAD in candidates for OLT. However, among those patients selected for OLT, the negative predictive value of DSE for both perioperative and long term cardiac events is high.
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