CHARACTERISTICS OF EARLY PLEURAL EFFUSIONS FOLLOWING ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION.

Of note, 5 patients (71%) had small pleural effusions prior to OHT, and there was a progression in 3 patients, showing evidence of concordance of effusion side pre-and post OLT. B CONCLUSIONS: b The majority of post-OHT patients at our institution had radiologically apparent pleural effusions during the post-OHT hospitalization, but only a very small minority underwent pleural fluid analysis. [Extracted from the article]