Association of frailty with postoperative outcomes following thoracic transplantation: A national analysisCentral MessagePerspective

Objective: Frailty has been repeatedly associated with inferior outcomes after surgical hospitalizations. However, a thorough evaluation of the impact of frailty on the clinical and financial outcomes of patients undergoing solid-organ thoracic transplantation is sparse in the literature. We evaluat...

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Published in:	JTCVS Open
Main Authors:	Shineui Kim, BA, Sara Sakowitz, MS, MPH, Joseph Hadaya, MD, PhD, Joanna Curry, BA, Nikhil L. Chervu, MS, MD, Syed Shahyan Bakhtiyar, MD, Saad Mallick, MD, Nam Yong Cho, BS, Peyman Benharash, MD
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2023-12-01
Subjects:	clinical outcomes frailty heart transplantation lung transplantation
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266627362300325X