Why the study?
Does heart rate variability analysis predict post-transplantation survival in patients awaiting liver transplantation?
Does heart rate variability analysis predict post-transplantation survival in patients awaiting liver transplantation?
Suggests that heart rate variability analysis could be applied as a co-morbidity factor in liver transplantation selection procedures.
The recent article published covering "The role of autonomic dysfunction in predicting 1-year mortality after liver transplantation" (1) provides some useful insight into post-transplantation survival. However, it seems to us that the data lend themselves to a different interpretation, possibly pointing to a new application of heart rate variability analysis in patients awaiting liver transplantation.
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Bhogal et al. (2017) studied this question.
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