Research Article
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 %) | ā | 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 |
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