Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Incidence of Vocal Cord Dysfunction in Cardiac Surgical versus Liver Transplantation Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
Authors' conclusion
Female sex, the Asian race, and longer surgical times were identified as significant risk factors for VCD
Study context
- Population
- Cardiac surgical and liver transplant patients at a single tertiary care hospital
- Participants
- 4,695 participants
- Exposure
- Cardiac surgical vs liver transplant patients
- Cardiacn = 4,262reference
- Liver transplant (LT)n = 433
- Outcome
- VCD incidence, cardiac surgical vs LT patients
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
VCD incidence
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Secondary outcomes
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) laterality
- Cardiac patients more likely to have left-sided VCD; LT patients higher right or bilateral VCD
Risk factors for VCD (multivariate logistic regression)
- Female sex, Asian race and longer surgical times significant risk factors; similar findings in cardiac patients only
Perioperative course and postoperative outcomes
- LT patients had longer surgical and ventilation times, higher reintubation rates, and worse pneumonia, sepsis and mortality
Original publication
Incidence of Vocal Cord Dysfunction in Cardiac Surgical versus Liver Transplantation Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 28 June 2025. doi:10.
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