Frailty and pre-frailty in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 66,448 patients

Frailty and pre-frailty in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 66,448 patients

Abstract Background The burden of frailty on cardiac surgical outcomes is incompletely understood. Here we perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing frail versus pre-frail versus non-frail patients following cardiac surgery. Methods We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases u...

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Main Authors: Jessica Avery Lee, Bobby Yanagawa, Kevin R. An, Rakesh C. Arora, Subodh Verma, Jan O. Friedrich, on behalf of the Canadian Cardiovascular Surgery Meta-Analysis Working Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Subjects:
Frailty
Coronary artery bypass graft
Valve surgery
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01541-8

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-021-01541-8

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