Tomohiro Kaneko, Nobuyuki Kagiyama, Takatoshi Kasai, Kentaro Kamiya, Hiroshi Saito, Kazuya Saito, Yuki Ogasahara, Emi Maekawa, Masaaki Konishi, Takeshi Kitai, Kentaro Iwata, Kentaro Jujo, Hiroshi Wada, Daichi Maeda, Masaru Hiki, Tsutomu Sunayama, Taishi Dotare, Hirofumi Nagamatsu, Tetsuya Ozawa, Katsuya Izawa, Shuhei Yamamoto, Naoki Aizawa, Akihiro Makino, Kazuhiro Oka, Shin-Ichi Momomura, Yuya Matsue, Tohru Minamino
AIMS: MitraScore is a novel, simple, and manually calculatable risk score developed as a prognostic model for patients undergoing transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for mitral regurgitation. As its components are considered prognostic in heart failure (HF), we aimed to investigate the usefulness of the MitraScore in HF patients. METHODS AND RESULTS: We calculated MitraScore for 1100 elderly patients (>65 years old) hospitalized for HF in the prospective multicentre FRAGILE-HF study and compared its prognostic ability with other simple risk scores...
January 19, 2024: ESC Heart Failure