Added prognostic value of visually estimated coronary artery calcium among heart transplant recipients
Clerkin K, Sewanan L, Griffin J, DeFilippis E, Peng B, Chernovolenko M, Harris E, Prasad N, Colombo P, Yuzefpolskaya M, Fried J, Raikhelkar J, Topkara V, Castillo M, Lam E, Latif F, Takeda K, Uriel N, Sayer G, Einstein A. Added prognostic value of visually estimated coronary artery calcium among heart transplant recipients. The Journal Of Heart And Lung Transplantation 2024, 43: 1795-1805. PMID: 39122222, PMCID: PMC11532001, DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2024.07.024.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCardiac allograft vasculopathyCoronary artery calciumHeart transplantationArtery calciumFollow-upHybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomographyPositron emission tomography/computed tomographyAssociated with adverse cardiovascular outcomesAdult HT patientsEmission tomography/computed tomographyMedian follow-upHeart transplant recipientsMultivariable proportional hazards regressionAdverse cardiovascular outcomesCoronary artery diseaseProportional hazards regressionSurveillance PET/CTAllograft vasculopathyTomography/computed tomographyCardiac PET/CTHT patientsMedian ageTransplant recipientsPrognostic valueDeath/retransplantation