Alexi Vasbinder, Tonimarie Catalan, Elizabeth Anderson, Catherine Chu, Megan Kotzin, Danielle Murphy, Halle Cheplowitz, Kristen Machado Diaz, Brayden Bitterman, Ian Pizzo, Yiyuan Huang, Jeffrey Xie, Christopher W Hoeger, Rayan Kaakati, Hanna P Berlin, Husam Shadid, Daniel Perry, Michael Pan, Radhika Takiar, Kishan Padalia, Jamie Mills, Chelsea Meloche, Alina Bardwell, Matthew Rochlen, Pennelope Blakely, Monika Leja, Mousumi Banerjee, Mary Riwes, John Magenau, Sarah Anand, Monalisa Ghosh, Attaphol Pawarode, Gregory Yanik, Sunita Nathan, John Maciejewski, Tochukwu Okwuosa, Salim S Hayek
BACKGROUND: Evidence guiding the pre-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) cardiovascular evaluation is limited. We sought to derive and validate a pre-HSCT score for the cardiovascular risk stratification of HSCT candidates. METHODS AND RESULTS: We leveraged the CARE-BMT (Cardiovascular Registry in Bone Marrow Transplantation) study, a contemporary multicenter observational study of adult patients who underwent autologous or allogeneic HSCT between 2008 and 2019 (N=2435; mean age at transplant of 55 years; 4...
January 2, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association