Cardiovascular Medical History Drives Risk of Ischemic Stroke in LVAD Patients

Purpose: The risk of stroke continues to be a major adverse event post-LVAD implantation, limiting the utility of LVADs in the less-sick patient population. Between 2010 and 2015 there were 4,185 neurologic events and 1104 were due to ischemic stroke. Of these, 16% were fatal. The goal of our study was to explore the myriad factors driving risk for ischemic stroke, based on the condition of the patient pre-implant. We use a Bayesian Network machine-learning approach, which allows for studying complex variable correlations.
Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research