Background Frailty assessment is recommended for patients with heart failure. Despite the
availability of instruments to assess frailty, there are no clear recommendations regarding …

Frailty is an age-related clinical syndrome characterized by a decline in physiologic reserve
and an associated decreased ability to respond to stressor events (1). Importantly, frailty is …

Abstract Background The Fried Frailty Phenotype predicts adverse outcomes in geriatric
populations, but has not been well-studied in advanced heart failure (HF). The Registry …

Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that causes systemic hypoperfusion and
failure to meet the body's metabolic demands. In an attempt to compensate, chronic …

Despite increasing utilization of continuous-flow pediatric ventricular assist devices (VAD) in
children, data on exercise testing and cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are unknown. We …

Disease-modifying therapies in both light chain and transthyretin amyloidosis have
improved patient functional status and survival. Conceivably, as heart failure may progress …

There are a variety of definitions and criteria used in clinical practice to define frailty. In the
absence of a gold-standard definition, frailty has been operationally defined as meeting 3 …

Background Cognitive impairment is documented early after heart transplantation (HT x), but
we lack data on cognitive function beyond the fourth year post‐transplant. Against the …

Purpose Health related quality of life (HRQoL) is rarely routinely measured in the clinical
setting. In the absence of patient reported data, clinicians rely on proxy and informal …

Background: Frailty has been proven to be associated with mortality after orthotopic heart
transplantation (OHT). The aim of our study was to determine the impact of frailty on mortality …