Early Postoperative Organ Function Recovery Score and Long-term Survival in Advanced Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Mechanical Circulatory Support

Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MOD) contributes to adverse outcomes in advanced heart failure (AdHF) patients after mechanical circulatory support (MCS) implantation and is associated with aberrant leukocyte activity. We tested the hypothesis that early postoperative improvement/non-improvement of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score and Model of Endstage Liver Disease Except INR (MELD-XI) score, termed Functional Recovery (FR) Score, serves as surrogate markers for 1-year survival in patients undergoing MCS-surgery.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research