CT-Derived Frailty Score Outperforms Clinical Frailty Scale for Mortality Prediction following TAVR

Frailty is prevalent in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) for severe aortic stenosis (AS), and is a significant predictor of unfavorable outcomes.1 However, current frailty assessment tools rely on clinical evaluations that are time-consuming and subjective, leading to inconsistent results.1 Computed tomography (CT) holds a pivotal role in preprocedural workup and further, allows opportunistic analysis of sarcopenic and renal dysfunction biomarkers such as psoas muscle density (PMD) and kidney to body-height ratio (KBR) respectively, which are objective and interrelated with frailty.
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research