Frailty and postoperative outcomes in brain tumor patients: a systematic review subdivided by tumor etiology

HM Qureshi, JK Tabor, K Pickens, H Lei… - Journal of Neuro …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Frailty has gained prominence in neurosurgical oncology, with more studies
exploring its relationship to postoperative outcomes in brain tumor patients. As this body of …

Frailty in patients undergoing surgery for brain tumors: a systematic review of the literature

S Huq, J Liu, R Romano, S Seal, AM Khalafallah… - World neurosurgery, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Emerging literature suggests that frailty may be an important driver of
postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing surgery for brain tumors. We systematically …

Preoperative frailty measured by risk analysis index predicts complications and poor discharge outcomes after Brain Tumor Resection in a large multi-center analysis

R Thommen, SF Kazim, K Rumalla… - Journal of Neuro …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the independent effect of frailty, as measured by the Risk Analysis
Index-Administrative (RAI-A) for postoperative complications and discharge outcomes …

Association of baseline frailty status and age with outcomes in patients undergoing intracranial meningioma surgery: results of a nationwide analysis of 5818 patients …

KL Cole, SF Kazim, R Thommen… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The objective of this study was to compare the effect of frailty, as measured by the 5-
factor modified frailty index (mFI-5), with that of age on postoperative outcomes of patients …

Association of baseline frailty status and age with postoperative morbidity and mortality following intracranial meningioma resection

AJ Dicpinigaitis, SF Kazim, MH Schmidt… - Journal of neuro …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Although numerous studies have established advanced patient age as a risk factor
for poor outcomes following intracranial meningioma resection, large-scale evaluation of …

Utility of hospital frailty risk score for predicting postoperative outcomes in craniopharyngioma

R Peterson, S Kandregula, E Jee… - Journal of Neuro …, 2022 - Springer
Overview Frailty is an age-associated decline in functional status leading to increased
vulnerability to otherwise innocuous stressors. In neurosurgical patients, frailty has been …

Frailty as a predictor of neurosurgical outcomes in brain tumor patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J Zhu, X Qiu, C Ji, F Wang, A Tao, L Chen - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Patients with frailty are at a high risk of poor health outcomes, and frailty has
been explored as a predictor of adverse events, such as perioperative complications …

Comparative associations of baseline frailty status and age with postoperative mortality and duration of hospital stay following metastatic brain tumor resection

AJ Dicpinigaitis, S Hanft, JB Cooper, CD Gandhi… - Clinical & Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Metastatic brain tumors are the most common intracranial neoplasms diagnosed in the
United States. Although baseline frailty status has been validated as a robust predictor of …

Association of patient frailty with vestibular schwannoma resection outcomes and machine learning development of a vestibular schwannoma risk stratification score

OY Tang, AI Bajaj, K Zhao, KMR Perla, YLM Ying… - …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Patient frailty is predictive of higher neurosurgical morbidity and mortality.
However, existing frailty measures are hindered by lack of specificity to neurosurgery …

Frailty measured by the risk analysis index predicts nonhome discharge and mortality after resection in refractory epilepsy: analysis of 1236 patients from a …

EM Estes, K Rumalla, SF Kazim, AJ Kassicieh… - …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Risk stratification of epilepsy surgery patients remains difficult. The Risk
Analysis Index (RAI) is a frailty measurement that augments preoperative risk stratification …