Long-term cardiovascular risk in the orthotopic liver transplant population

Abstract

In theoperative and peri-operative period, these events in-clude life-threatening arrhythmias at the time of donorliver reperfusion, myocardial ischemia or myocardialinfarction (MI) or congestive heart failure. In long termOLTx survivors, CV events include unstable angina, MIor death. Therefore, assessing short and long term CVrisk is an important aspect of the ESLD pretransplantevaluation.Currently, there is no widely accepted algorithm toidentify patients that are at high risk of perioperativetransplant CV events from the hemodynamic stress ofsurgery. Contrary to data in the vascular surgery pop-ulation