Does frailty status measured by the Katz Index predict short- and long-term morbidity and mortality after TAVI better than commonly used risk scores?
Patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
Frailty risk assessment using the Katz Index of activities of daily living
Commonly used risk scores
Short- and long-term morbidity and mortality (adverse early and late outcome)hard clinical
The Katz Index is a simple and reproducible measure of frailty that strongly predicts early and late adverse outcomes after TAVI, outperforming standard risk scores.
Frailty status measured by the Katz Index represents a powerful predictor of adverse early and late outcome after TAVI, whereas commonly used risk scores lack calibration and discrimination in a TAVI-specific patient cohort. Therefore, we propose the incorporation of this simple and reproducible measure into pre-TAVI risk assessment.
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Miriam Puls
Interventional Cardiology
Bettina Sobisiak
Annalen Bleckmann
University of Münster
EuroIntervention
University of Göttingen
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
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Puls et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
synapsesocial.com/papers/69da8dba0f32475823a3d67b — DOI: https://doi.org/10.4244/eijy14m08_03