Can Frailty Be a Predictor of ICD Shock after the Implantation of a Cardioverter Defibrillator in Elderly Patients?
Agnieszka MłynarskaRafal MlynarskiBartosz UchmanowiczWioletta Bronislawa MikuľákováPublished in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
About three-quarters of the elderly patients that had qualified for ICD implantation were affected by frailty syndrome. In the frailty subgroup, adequate and inadequate shocks occurred more often compared to the robust patients.