Open AccessValidation of Cognitive Impairment in Combination With Physical Frailty as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure Referred for Heart Transplantation
Author(s) -
Samira R Aili,
Ricardo De Silva,
Kay Wilhelm,
Sunita R Jha,
Rodrigo Fritis-Lamora,
E. E. Montgomery,
Rachel Pierce,
Fiona Lam,
Xavier Brennan,
Natasha Gorrie,
B. Schnegg,
Andrew Jabbour,
Eugene Kotlyar,
K. Muthiah,
Anne Keogh,
P. Jansz,
Christopher Hayward,
Peter Macdonald
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0000000000003669
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , heart transplantation , cohort , transplantation , cognition , cognitive impairment , cohort study , cognitive decline , gerontology , physical therapy , disease , dementia , psychiatry
The aim of this study was to validate our previous finding that frailty predicts early mortality in patients with advanced heart failure (AHF) and that including cognition in the frailty assessment enhances the prediction of mortality.