What is the utility of preoperative frailty assessment for risk stratification in cardiac surgery?

Frailty in elderly people

(2013) Andrew Clegg et al.   LANCET

Addition of Frailty and Disability to Cardiac Surgery Risk Scores Identifies Elderly Patients at High Risk of Mortality or Major Morbidity

(2012) Jonathan Afilalo et al.  

Predictors of functional decline in elderly patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

(2012) A. W. Schoenenberger et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Evaluation of Multidimensional Geriatric Assessment as a Predictor of Mortality and Cardiovascular Events After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

(2012) Stefan Stortecky et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

The Impact of Frailty Status on Survival After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Older Adults With Severe Aortic Stenosis

(2012) Philip Green et al.   JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions

One-year follow-up of patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery assessed with the Comprehensive Assessment of Frailty test and its simplified form

(2011) S. Sundermann et al.   Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Frail Patients Are at Increased Risk for Mortality and Prolonged Institutional Care After Cardiac Surgery

(2010) Dana H. Lee et al.   CIRCULATION

Comprehensive assessment of frailty for elderly high-risk patients undergoing cardiac surgery☆

(2010) Simon Sündermann et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIO-THORACIC SURGERY

Gait Speed as an Incremental Predictor of Mortality and Major Morbidity in Elderly Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

(2010) Jonathan Afilalo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Preoperative 6-minute walk test adds prognostic information to Euroscore in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement

(2009) D P de Arenaza et al.   HEART