One-year follow-up of patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery assessed with the comprehensive assessment of frailty test and its simplified form

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-123

  Sündermann, Simon ^a   Dademasch, Anika ^b   Rastan, Ardawan ^b   Praetorius, Julian ^b   Rodriguez, Héctor ^a   Walther, Thomas ^c   Mohr, Friedrich Wilhelm ^b   Falk, Volkmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery risk scores; Elderly patients; Frailty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF FRAILTY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERMANY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960997052     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.251884     Document Type: Article

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