Fig 1.
Flow chart of patient selection.
RHC: right heart catheterization; PEA: pulmonary endarterectomy; PH: pulmonary hypertension.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics.
Table 2.
Parameters one-year post-PEA according to residual PH.
Table 3.
Baseline Parameters according to HbA1c dichotomized at the cut-off indicative of diabetes or prediabetes according to the American Diabetes Association [27].
Fig 2.
Associations between baseline HbA1c and CI (r = 0.47, p = 0.001) (A), RAP (r = 0.37, p = 0.023) (B) and peak VO2 (r = 0.39, p = 0.015) (C). For abbreviations see Table 1.
Fig 3.
Association between baseline HbA1c-levels and the change of 6MWD (r = 0.32, p = 0.03).
For abbreviations see Table 1.
Table 4.
HbA1c levels and baseline parameters as predictors of residual PH one-year post-PEA.