The impact of frailty on mortality after heart transplantation

Frailty is prevalent in patients with advanced heart failure however its impact on clinical outcomes after heart transplantation is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of pre-transplant frailty on mortality and the duration of hospitalisation after heart transplantation.

Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - November 21, 2020 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Peter S Macdonald, Natasha Gorrie, Xavier Brennan, Samira R Aili, Ricardo De Silva, Sunita R Jha, Rodrigo Fritis-Lamora, Elyn Montgomery, Kay Wilhelm, Rachel Pierce, Fiona Lam, Christopher Hayward, Andrew Jabbour, Eugene Kotlyar, Kavitha Muthiah, Anne M K Source Type: research