Frailty in patients undergoing percutaneous left atrial appendage closure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in older adults. Whether frailty predicts adverse outcomes after percutaneous left atrial appendage closure (LAAC) remains uncertain.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between frailty and clinical outcomes after percutaneous LAAC.

Methods

We identified patients 65 years and older in Medicare fee-for-service claims who underwent LAAC between October 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019. Patients were identified as frail on the basis of the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS), a validated frailty measure centered on health resource utilization, with the cohort stratified into low (<5), intermediate (5-15), and high (>15) risk groups.

Results

Of the 21,787 patients

SUBMITTER: Wang A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9968991 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature