22 December 2021: Original Paper
Comparison of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring with Dobutamine Stress Echo for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Before Liver Transplantation
Cerise Kleb 1ABDEF , Vardhmaan Jain 1CE , Chirag Sheth 2ABD , Kathy Wolski 3CE , Samir Kapadia 3EG , Richard Grimm 3AB , Milind Desai 3A , Amar Krishnaswamy 3A , Nicholas Kassis 1E , Calvin Sheng 3E , Huili Zheng 4C , Jacek Cywinski 5A , K.V. Narayanan Menon 6A , Bijan Eghtesad 6A , Teresa Diago Uso 6A , Cristiano Quintini 6A , Paul Schoenhagen 7AD , Serge C. Harb 3A , Vikram Sharma 8ACDEF* , Maan Fares 3ADEG**DOI: 10.12659/AOT.934163
Ann Transplant 2021; 26:e934163
Figure 1 Flow diagram of study population selection. A total of 265 patients underwent coronary angiography prior to orthotopic liver transplantation. Of this sample, 173 patients had dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). Only patients with a diagnostic DSE were used for data analysis (n=73). A total of 133 patients had a chest computed tomography scan suitable for calcium scoring. A total of 36 patients had a diagnostic DSE and could be used for the head-to-head comparison of the 2 tests. Figure was created using Microsoft Word version 2010.