Handle with care: A systematic review on frailty in cardiac care and its usefulness in heart transplantation

There is growing consensus that frailty, a state of vulnerability and a decline in functioning across multiple physiological body systems, is a valuable criterion to guide clinicians' risk prediction for poor outcomes in adult transplant candidates. In its 2016 listing criteria for heart transplantation the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation recommends frailty assessment. We aimed to summarize the usefulness of frailty assessment in heart transplant candidates or recipients reported throughout the literature.
Source: Transplantation Reviews - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research