Coronary artery disease in decompensated patients undergoing liver transplantation evaluation.
Publication/Presentation Date
3-1-2018
Abstract
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is an important contributor to morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT). However, the current literature is limited by sampling bias and nondefinitive assessment of CAD. The current study examines the prevalence of CAD via per protocol coronary angiography and its relationship to etiology of liver disease in patients undergoing liver transplantation evaluation (LTE). Data on 228 patients were prospectively collected who had coronary angiography as part of LTE between 2011 and 2014. Coronary angiography was done in all patients age ≥50 years or with CAD risk factors. CAD was defined as any coronary artery stenosis, whereas stenosis ≥ 70% in distribution of 1 or 3 major coronary arteries was considered as single- or triple-vessel disease. CAD was detected in 36.8% of patients, with the highest prevalence among nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) patients with cirrhosis (52.8%). Prevalence of single-vessel disease was higher among patients with NASH compared with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and alcoholic cirrhosis (15.1% versus 4.6% versus 6.6%; P = 0.02). Similarly, patients with NASH were more likely to have triple-vessel disease when compared with HCV and alcoholic cirrhosis (9.4% versus 0.9% versus 0%; P = 0.001). While adjusting for traditional risk factors for CAD, only NASH as etiology of liver disease remained significantly associated with CAD. Complications from diagnostic coronary angiography or percutaneous coronary intervention were low (2.6%). In conclusion, patients undergoing LTE have a high prevalence of CAD, which varies widely depending on etiology of liver cirrhosis. The procedural complications from coronary angiography are low. Liver Transplantation 24 333-342 2018 AASLD.
Volume
24
Issue
3
First Page
333
Last Page
342
ISSN
1527-6473
Published In/Presented At
Patel, S. S., Nabi, E., Guzman, L., Abbate, A., Bhati, C., Stravitz, R. T., Reichman, T., Matherly, S. C., Driscoll, C., Lee, H., Luketic, V. A., Sterling, R. K., Sanyal, A. J., Patel, V., Levy, M., & Siddiqui, M. S. (2018). Coronary artery disease in decompensated patients undergoing liver transplantation evaluation. Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, 24(3), 333–342. https://doi.org/10.1002/lt.25012
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
29328556
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article