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Does preoperative frailty affect outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve implantation?
Does preoperative frailty affect outcomes following transcatheter aortic valve implantation?
Preoperative frailty identifies TAVI patients at greater risk of poor outcomes, suggesting objective frailty tools may inform patient selection.
Supports incorporating frailty assessment into TAVI selection to flag highest-risk patients; confirms association via pooled evidence.
Frailty assessment in an already vulnerable TAVI population identifies individuals at even greater risk of poor outcomes. Use of objective frailty tools may inform patient selection, but this requires further assessment in large prospective registries.
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