Frailty assessment and impact of frailty on outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Introduction: Certain frail patients fail to achieve adequate functional or mortality benefit despite successful transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). Therefore, frailty assessment methods are becoming an important tool to identify and intervene on this high-risk patient subset for improving clinical outcomes.Areas covered: The authors provide an overview of frailty and frailty assessment tools being used in clinical practice and...