This condition, now “trending” among patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), has expanded to almost all patients we treat, always with the same outcome: the prognosis is bad, so bad that it might warrant making the difficult decision of not going forward. The association between frailty and bad prognosis is easy to see and…
TAVI Frailty Indices: We Should Start Using Them
Courtesy of Dr. Carlos Fava. Frailty should be taken into account when deciding transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Even though several scales of frailty are available, they are yet to be tested in this group, with this strategy. The study analyzed 101 patients, frailty was assessed clinically according to the following tests: Katz index…