Pre-existing Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients With End-stage Heart Failure: Impact on Clinical Outcome and Hemodynamic Follow-up After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Pre-existing elevated PVR that responds to vasodilator challenge does not have a negative influence on short- and long-term survival after HT. We found that residual post-transplant PHT is associated with decreased long-term survival.