Characteristics of transplanted patients and their hospitalisations during the year before the transplantation hospital stay according to the presence (or absence) of at least one acute hospital stay, intensive care unit stay and rehabilitation stay during the year before transplantation
| n | All | Hospitalisation | Rehabilitation | |||||||
| Hospital stay | Intensive care unit stay | |||||||||
| 2379 | No | Yes | P value | No | Yes | P value | No | Yes | P value | |
| 208 | 2171 | 725 | 1446 | 1655 | 724 | |||||
| Characteristics | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |||
| Age, years, mean (SD) | 47.8 (15.1) | 43.5 (17.0) | 48.2 (14.9) | <0.0001 | 46.7 (16.4) | 48.9 (14.0) | <0.0001 | 45.9 (16.4) | 52.1 (10.4) | <0.0001 |
| 0–5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.0002 | 2.5 | 1.0 | <0.0001 | 0.0 | 2.1 | <0.0001 |
| 6–15 | 3.5 | 7.7 | 3.1 | 5.7 | 1.9 | 0.0 | 5.1 | |||
| 16–25 | 5.8 | 10.6 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 2.1 | 7.4 | |||
| 26–35 | 8.7 | 12.0 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 6.6 | 9.7 | |||
| 36–45 | 14.7 | 11.5 | 15.0 | 14.2 | 15.4 | 14.8 | 14.7 | |||
| 46–55 | 27.9 | 26.4 | 28.0 | 26.6 | 28.7 | 33.4 | 25.4 | |||
| 56–65 | 33.8 | 26.4 | 34.5 | 33.9 | 34.9 | 39.0 | 31.6 | |||
| >65 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.0 | |||
| Male | 74.1 | 74.5 | 74.1 | 0.89 | 70.5 | 75.9 | 0.03 | 76.0 | 73.3 | 0.17 |
| Rehabilitation | ||||||||||
| At least one stay | 30.4 | 7.7 | 32.6 | <0.0001 | 21.8 | 38.0 | <0.0001 | – | – | – |
| Short hospital stay, mean (SD) | 4.3 (3.4) | – | 4.3 (3.4) | – | 3.3 (2.7) | 4.8 (3.6) | <0.0001 | 3.9 (3.5) | 5.1 (2.9) | <0.0001 |
| Length of all short stays, days, mean (SD) | 10.3 (33.1) | 10.3 (33.1) | – | 6.0 (7.9) | 11.8 (38.0) | <0.0001 | 14.1 (50.4) | 7.8 (12.5) | <0.0001 | |
| Length of all short stays with cardiovascular diagnosis, days, mean (SD) | 7.0 (6.1) | – | 7.0 (6.1) | – | 5.7 (4.5) | 7.4 (6.4) | <0.0001 | 7.1 (7.2) | 6.9 (3.6) | <0.0001 |
| At least one short stay with: | ||||||||||
| Cardiovascular diagnosis | 84.5 | – | 92.6 | – | 82.8 | 97.6 | <0.0001 | 80.5 | 93.8 | <0.0001 |
| Cardiomyopathy* | 33.7 | – | 36.9 | – | 36.1 | 37.3 | 0.5828 | 32.4 | 36.7 | 0.0387 |
| Chronic ischaemic heart disease, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction | 18.0 | – | 19.7 | – | 10.9 | 24.1 | <0.0001 | 13.2 | 28.9 | <0.0001 |
| Valvular heart disease | 3.1 | – | 3.4 | – | 1.5 | 4.3 | 0.0007 | 2.4 | 4.6 | 0.0053 |
| Congenital heart disease | 2.0 | – | 2.2 | – | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.0487 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 0.0436 |
| Heart graft (including failures) | 0.9 | – | 1.0 | – | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8748 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.0854 |
| Heart failure and cardiogenic shock | 60.4 | – | 66.2 | – | 51.3 | 73.7 | <0.0001 | 54.0 | 75.0 | <0.0001 |
| Arrhythmia and conduction disorders | 19.4 | – | 21.3 | – | 13.4 | 25.2 | <0.0001 | 17.6 | 23.6 | 0.0006 |
| Stroke | 1.9 | – | 2.1 | – | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.1983 | 1.6 | 2.6 | 0.0827 |
| At least one procedure during the stay | ||||||||||
| Intra-aortic balloon pump | 5.3 | – | 5.8 | – | 0 | 8.7 | – | 3.9 | 8.6 | <0.0001 |
| Ventricular assist device | 7.6 | – | 8.3 | – | 0 | 12.5 | – | 3.0 | 18.1 | <0.0001 |
| Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation | 5.4 | – | 5.9 | – | 0 | 8.9 | – | 3.3 | 10.2 | <0.0001 |
| Mechanical circulatory support, undetermined | 6.7 | – | 7.3 | – | 0 | 11.0 | – | 2.8 | 15.5 | <0.0001 |
| Mechanical ventilation | 14.9 | – | 16.3 | – | 0 | 24.5 | – | 9.8 | 26.4 | <0.0001 |
| Inotropic perfusion | 22.4 | – | 24.5 | – | 3.4 | 35.1 | <0.0001 | 16.3 | 36.3 | <0.0001 |
| Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator | 31.6 | – | 34.6 | – | 23.3 | 40.2 | <0.0001 | 24.8 | 47.0 | <0.0001 |
| Arrhythmia,other procedures | 23.3 | – | 25.6 | 14.3 | 31.2 | 19.2 | 32.7 | |||
| Coronary artery bypass graft | 0.9 | 1.0 | – | 0 | 1.5 | – | 0.5 | 1.8 | 0.003 | |
*Included delated, restrictive andhypertrophic cardiopathies.