Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among older patients with acute MI, those with frailty had lower odds of undergoing cardiac catheterization but, ...

Frailty increases the risk of bleeding by more than 50% in patients with acute MI undergoing PCI, a new study suggests. The researchers say more efforts are needed to use bleeding-reduction strategies ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

In patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), frailty was associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The use of an oral anticoagulant (OAC) prescription was associated with substantial reductions in the ...

In this review, we first provide a brief overview of frailty, including biologic mechanisms, measurement, and clinical management. This overview is followed by a discussion of approaches to ...

The proportion of patients with potentially inappropriate medications was 38% overall and 56.1% in patients with moderate to severe frailty. Use of potentially inappropriate medications among cancer ...

A retrospective cohort study found that frailty was prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and that the adverse effects could include end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and mortality. An ...

Frailty after kidney transplantation is a harbinger for death and other major adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients. The hospital frailty risk score (HFRS) predicts graft failure, severe infection ...