Assessment of Commonly Used Frailty Markers for High- and Extreme-Risk Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.
CONCLUSIONS: Among high- and extreme-risk patients undergoing TAVR, our new frailty model was more discriminative of 30-day mortality than The Society of Thoracic Surgeons predicted risk of mortality. New cutoff values for frailty indicators were identified and will require further validation.
PMID: 28942076 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Forcillo J, Condado JF, Ko YA, Yuan M, Binongo JN, Ndubisi NM, Kelly JJ, Babaliaros V, Guyton RA, Devireddy C, Leshnower BG, Stewart JP, Perrault LP, Khairy P, Thourani VH Tags: Ann Thorac Surg Source Type: research
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