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One-year follow up of patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery assessed with the comprehensive assessment of frailty test and its simplified form.
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PMID:  21378017     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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Assessment of perioperative risk of elderly patients in cardiac surgery is demanding. Most of the commonly used cardiac surgery risk scores over- or underestimate individual risk. Therefore, we recently developed a 'frailty score', the comprehensive assessment of frailty (CAF) score that showed a good prediction of 30-day mortality. The aim of the study was to evaluate the ability of the new score predicting one-year outcome. CAF was preoperatively applied to 400 patients ≥74 years that were admitted to cardiac surgery between September 2008 and January 2010. For 213 of these patients one-year follow-up was assessed by telephone interview until April 2010. One hundred and ten male and 103 female patients were included. Twenty-five percent underwent isolated coronary revascularization, 35% isolated valve procedures and 26% underwent combined procedures. One-year mortality was 12.2%. Patients who died within one year had a median frailty score of 16 [5;33] compared to 11 [3;33] to the one-year survivors (P=0.001). A new, easily applicable score ('Frailty predicts One yeaR after Elective Cardiac Surgery Test') was built out of the basic score and showed a promising ability to predict one-year mortality. CAF is a new additional tool to assess prognosis of elderly patients before cardiac surgical interventions. The 'CAF' score facilitates prediction of mid-term outcome of high-risk elderly patients. Keywords: Frailty; Cardiac surgery risk scores; Elderly patients.
Authors:
Simon H Sündermann; Anika Dademasch; Ardawan Rastan; Julian Praetorius; Héctor Rodriguez; Thomas Walther; Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr; Volkmar Falk
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-3-4
Journal Detail:
Title:  Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1569-9285     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-3-7     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101158399     Medline TA:  Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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