Authors: Radoslav Zinoviev, Olcay Aksoy
Published: 2024-11-14
DOI: 10.1161/circ.150.suppl_1.4145296
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Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is often a contraindication to liver transplantation (LT). Despite the widely accepted impact of liver cirrhosis on aortic valve hemodynamics, the change in these parameters with LT or impact of AS on LT outcomes has not been described. Given the rising burden of both AS and liver disease, there is an urgent need to understand this interaction. We identified 674 patients with liver cirrhosis who received LT at UCLA from 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2023 and investigated the change in echocardiographic hemodynamics within a year of the procedure. Patients with severe AS were excluded due to sparsity of these patients in the LT cohort. Aortic valve peak velocity (AV