3. Results
Mean age of the study sample was 50.57 ± 7.33 and 40 patients (81.6%)
were male. Approximately half of the patients had ischemic
cardiomyopathy (n=25, 51%). 69.4% (n=34) had symptoms compatible with
an INTERMACS profile between IV-VII, while the remaining 30.6% (n=15)
were classified as INTERMACS II or III. Preoperative visual
echocardiographic assessment indicated RVF in 17 (34.7%) of patients.
At postoperative day 15, 13 (26.5%) patients had probable and 4 (8.2%)
patients had definitive RVF and a total of 10 patients (20.4%) died.
Patients with a PDI ≤ 2.41 mmHg/cm2, 2.41
mmHg/cm2 < PDI ≤3.62
mmHg/cm2 and PDI >3.62
mmHg/cm2 were assigned to the PDI tertiles.