Frailty in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation

Jha, Sunita Rakha

Frailty in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation

Jha, Sunita Rakha

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Jha, Sunita Rakha
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-09T02:16:47Z
dc.date.available	2018-10-09T02:16:47Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128017
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Health.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	Frailty research within advanced heart failure (AHF) is a nascent concept. Frailty is defined as an increased vulnerability to stressors in response to an individual’s declining physiological reserve. As physiological reserves naturally decline with advancing age, frailty is considered a geriatric syndrome. While the significance of frailty is well entrenched within geriatric medicine, the impact of frailty among other specialties is only emerging. The increased survival of an ageing highly co-morbid populace of heart failure patients alongside the expanding use of invasive surgical interventions, has propelled frailty exploration into the forefront of cardiovascular research. This thesis by publication represents the first set of studies to explore the impact of frailty in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation.	en_AU
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/128017/2/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	Frailty.	en_AU
dc.subject	Advanced heart failure patients.	en_AU
dc.subject.lcsh	Heart Transplantation.	en_AU
dc.subject.lcsh	Heart failure.	en_AU
dc.title	Frailty in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis	en_AU
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Frailty research within advanced heart failure (AHF) is a nascent concept. Frailty is defined as an increased vulnerability to stressors in response to an individual’s declining physiological reserve. As physiological reserves naturally decline with advancing age, frailty is considered a geriatric syndrome. While the significance of frailty is well entrenched within geriatric medicine, the impact of frailty among other specialties is only emerging. The increased survival of an ageing highly co-morbid populace of heart failure patients alongside the expanding use of invasive surgical interventions, has propelled frailty exploration into the forefront of cardiovascular research. This thesis by publication represents the first set of studies to explore the impact of frailty in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation.

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