Baseline frailty status and outcomes important for shared decision-making in older adults receiving transcatheter aortic valve implantation, a prospective observational study.
CONCLUSIONS: TAVI patients had improvement in symptoms and maintenance of activity of daily living at 6 months. They had low mortality and most patients lived in their own home 2 years after TAVI. Complications like death, stroke, and endocarditis occurred. Some patients had cognitive impairment before the procedure which might influence decision-making. Our findings may be used to develop pre-TAVI decision aids.
PMID: 32193850 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Aging Clinical and Experimental Research - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Skaar E, Øksnes A, Eide LSP, Norekvål TM, Ranhoff AH, Nordrehaug JE, Forman DE, Schoenenberger AW, Hufthammer KO, Kuiper KK, Bleie Ø, Packer EJS, Langørgen J, Haaverstad R, Schaufel MA Tags: Aging Clin Exp Res Source Type: research
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