Frailty in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: prognostic value of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index

• Main Authors: Hatim Seoudy (Author), Baravan Al‐Kassou (Author), Jasmin Shamekhi (Author), Atsushi Sugiura (Author), Johanne Frank (Author), Mohammed Saad (Author), Peter Bramlage (Author), Anna Katharina Seoudy (Author), Thomas Puehler (Author), Georg Lutter (Author), Dominik M. Schulte (Author), Matthias Laudes (Author), Georg Nickenig (Author), Norbert Frey (Author), Jan‐Malte Sinning (Author), Derk Frank (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Malnutrition is a hallmark of frailty, is common among elderly patients, and is a predictor of poor outcomes in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI) is a simple and well‐established screening tool to predict the risk o...