TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baritello, Omar
A1  - Salzwedel, Annett
A1  - Sündermann, Simon
A1  - Niebauer, Josef
A1  - Völler, Heinz
T1  - The Pandora's Box of frailty assessments: Which is the best for clinical purposes in TAVI patients? A critical review
JF  - Journal of Clinical Medicine
N2  - Frailty assessment is recommended before elective transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) to determine post-interventional prognosis. Several studies have investigated frailty in TAVI-patients using numerous assessments; however, it remains unclear which is the most appropriate tool for clinical practice. Therefore, we evaluate which frailty assessment is mainly used and meaningful for ≤30-day and ≥1-year prognosis in TAVI patients. Randomized controlled or observational studies (prospective/retrospective) investigating all-cause mortality in older (≥70 years) TAVI patients were identified (PubMed; May 2020). In total, 79 studies investigating frailty with 49 different assessments were included. As single markers of frailty, mostly gait speed (23 studies) and serum albumin (16 studies) were used. Higher risk of 1-year mortality was predicted by slower gait speed (highest Hazard Ratios (HR): 14.71; 95% confidence interval (CI) 6.50–33.30) and lower serum albumin level (highest HR: 3.12; 95% CI 1.80–5.42). Composite indices (five items; seven studies) were associated with 30-day (highest Odds Ratio (OR): 15.30; 95% CI 2.71–86.10) and 1-year mortality (highest OR: 2.75; 95% CI 1.55–4.87). In conclusion, single markers of frailty, in particular gait speed, were widely used to predict 1-year mortality. Composite indices were appropriate, as well as a comprehensive assessment of frailty. View Full-Text
KW  - frailty tool
KW  - TAVI
KW  - older patients
KW  - elderly
KW  - cardiology
KW  - mortality
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm10194506
SN  - 2077-0383
VL  - 10
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel, Schweiz
ET  - 19
ER  -