22 December 2021 : Original article
Comparison of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring with Dobutamine Stress Echo for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Before Liver Transplantation
Cerise Kleb1ABDEF, Vardhmaan Jain1CE, Chirag Sheth2ABD, Kathy Wolski3CE, Samir Kapadia3EG, Richard Grimm3AB, Milind Desai3A, Amar Krishnaswamy3A, Nicholas Kassis1E, Calvin Sheng3E, Huili Zheng
4C, Jacek Cywinski5A, K.V. Narayanan Menon6A, Bijan Eghtesad6A, Teresa Diago Uso6A, Cristiano Quintini6A, Paul Schoenhagen 7AD, Serge C. Harb3A, Vikram Sharma8ACDEF, Maan Fares3ADEG*
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.