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22 December 2021: Original Paper

Comparison of Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring with Dobutamine Stress Echo for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Before Liver Transplantation

Cerise Kleb 1ABDEF , Vardhmaan Jain 1CE , Chirag Sheth 2ABD , Kathy Wolski 3CE , Samir Kapadia 3EG , Richard Grimm 3AB , Milind Desai 3A , Amar Krishnaswamy 3A , Nicholas Kassis 1E , Calvin Sheng 3E , Huili Zheng 4C , Jacek Cywinski 5A , K.V. Narayanan Menon 6A , Bijan Eghtesad 6A , Teresa Diago Uso 6A , Cristiano Quintini 6A , Paul Schoenhagen 7AD , Serge C. Harb 3A , Vikram Sharma 8ACDEF* , Maan Fares 3ADEG**

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.934163

Ann Transplant 2021; 26:e934163

Table 4 Prior studies that have evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of dobutamine stress echocardiography for coronary artery disease in liver transplant candidates.

SensitivitySpecificity
DSE (n=73)0.308 (0.091 to 0.614)0.850 (0.734 to 0.929)
CACS with 100 as cutoff (n=133)0.800 (0.563 to 0.943)0.628 (0.532 to 0.717)
CACS with 400 as cutoff (n=133)0.550 (0.315 to 0.769)0.796 (0.71 to 0.866)

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Annals of Transplantation eISSN: 2329-0358
Annals of Transplantation eISSN: 2329-0358