Background: Sarcopenia is characterized by progressive loss of skeletal muscle and has
frequently been associated with poor clinical outcomes in patients with advanced heart …

Background Diagnosing sarcopenia in heart failure (HF) patients is important, but how to
assess skeletal muscle mass in HF patients with fluid retention is controversial. We aimed to …

Aims Assessing frailty and sarcopenia is considered a valuable cornerstone of perioperative
risk stratification in advanced heart failure patients. The lack of an international consensus …

Background: Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on serum creatinine (sCr)
improves early after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation but subsequently …

Purpose CHA2DS2-VASc score predicts thromboembolic event risk and HAS-BLED score
predicts major bleeding risk in patients on anticoagulation with atrial fibrillation. We aimed to …

Introduction Whether pre left ventricular assist device (LVAD) sarcopenia is associated with
higher incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) on LVAD support remains unknown …

Although a correlation between the nutritional status and the prognosis of patients with heart
failure has been suggested, a correlation between the nutritional status and outcomes after …

Metabolic disturbances (including sarcopenia, frailty, and cachexia) are associated with
reduced survival, functional capacity, and quality of life in patients with heart failure (HF) …

We aimed to identify a simple metric accounting for peri-procedural hemoglobin changes,
independent of blood product transfusion strategies, and assess its correlation with …

Purpose Malnutrition has been shown to affect clinical outcomes in patients with heart
failure. The aim of our study was to analyse the impact of preoperative nutritional status …