ABSTRACT
It was unclear whether increased heart rate (HR) increased long-term mortality after heart transplantation (HT). The aim of this study was to evaluate whether HR predicted survival after HT. A retrospective analysis of patients who underwent HT at our institution was performed. Ethnicity, gender, date of birth, age at transplantation, length of follow-up after transplantation, cardiac rhythm within 3 months after transplantation, age at death, reason for transplantation, cause of death, and baseline medications after transplantation were recorded. Continuous variables, such as HR, blood pressure, cardiac ejection fraction, presence of allograft vasculopathy, and serum creatinine, were recorded at <3 months, 6 months, and 1 year after HT, then annually to 10 years after HT. Seventy-eight patients with a mean age of 50 +/- 13 years were identified. Mean survival was 8.5 +/- 6.5 years. Of 78 patients, 32 patients had an HR Subject(s)
Cause of Death
, Heart Rate/physiology
, Heart Transplantation/mortality
, Adult
, Age Factors
, Cohort Studies
, Confidence Intervals
, Female
, Heart Transplantation/methods
, Humans
, Kaplan-Meier Estimate
, Linear Models
, Male
, Middle Aged
, Monitoring, Physiologic
, Multivariate Analysis
, Postoperative Care/methods
, Postoperative Complications/mortality
, Prognosis
, Retrospective Studies
, Risk Assessment
, Sensitivity and Specificity
, Sex Factors
, Survival Analysis
, Time Factors