Heart Failure Is Not Associated with a Poor Outcome after Mechanical Thrombectomy in Large Vessel Occlusion of Cerebral Arteries

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of patients with and without heart failure.

Baseline characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors	Normal systolic LV-ejection fraction	Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction	p-value
Age	73 (63-83)	77 (70-84)	0.011
Female	126 (53.8%)	41 (48.8%)	0.428
Male	108 (46.2%)	43 (51.2 %)
Arterial Hypertension	182 (79.1%)	71 (85.5%)	0.203
Diabetes mellitus	53 (23.1%)	27 (32.9%)	0.082
Atrial fibrillation	81 (35.5%)	50 (61.0%)	< 0.001
Obesity	71 (33.0%)	33 (41.8%)	0.164
Dyslipidemia	101 (43.9%)	41 (50.6%)	0.298
Smoking	46 (22.7%)	12 (16.9%)	0.307
Peripheral artery disease	5 (2.2%)	9 (11.0%)	0.003
Coronary heart disease	41 (18.0%)	44 (53.7%)	<0.001
Chronic renal failure	35 (18.2%)	24 (35.8%)	0.003