Objective: To describe and critique tools used to assess frailty in vascular surgery patients,
and investigate its associations with patient factors and outcomes. Background: Increasing …

Objective To evaluate the quality of published evidence of all frailty tools in major vascular
surgery and to determine the effect of frailty on short and long-term outcomes after vascular …

Importance More older adults are undergoing major surgery despite the greater risk of
postoperative mortality. Although measures, such as functional, cognitive, and psychological …

Background Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) has become the preferred strategy for
elective repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) for many patients. However, the …

Frailty is a well-known geriatric syndrome of impaired physiological reserve and increased
vulnerability to stressors. Sarcopenia is also used as a parameter of physical impairment …

Objective To evaluate the effect of frailty assessed by the modified Frailty Index (mFI) on
major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) in the elderly patients after …

Octogenarians and nonagenarians are considered the “very old” and are often viewed as
one group. Americans are aging, with the proportion of the very old expected to increase …

Background We aimed to determine the correlation between the functional status at
discharge in non-cardiac vascular surgery patients and the out-of-hospital mortality …

Background Preoperative functional status is appreciated as a key determinant of decision-
making when evaluating patients for complex elective surgeries. We used the Vascular …

Introduction Dependent functional status is correlated with increased mortality in patient
undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, patients who are partially …