Preinterventional frailty assessment in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery or transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a consensus statement of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Affiliations

• ¹ Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Institute of Sports Medicine, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Salzburg, Austria.
• ² Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Prevention, Salzburg, Austria.
• ³ REHA-Zentrum Salzburg, University Hospital Salzburg, Austria.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, RT, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁵ Center on Ageing and Mobility, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁶ University College London, Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit, London, Great Britain.
• ⁷ Semmelweis University, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁸ Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Potsdam, Germany.
• ⁹ Klinik am See, Rehabilitation Centre for Internal Medicine, Rüdersdorf, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹² DZHK (German Center of Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.