Acute Kidney Injury After Heart Transplant: The Importance of Pulmonary Hypertension.

Objective: To determine whether relative pulmonary hypertension (PH), defined as the ratio of mean arterial pressure to mean pulmonary artery pressure, is associated with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after heart transplant (HT).

Design: An institutional review board-approved retrospective observational study.

Setting: Tertiary care university hospital.