Frailty correlates with postoperative mortality and major morbidity after cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
Annals of Surgical Oncology Oct 15, 2017
Konstantinidis IT, et al. - Authors sought to assess the role of the modified frailty index (MFI) in predicting outcomes for patients undergoing cytoreduction (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). Findings suggested that frailty was a strong predictor of major grade 4 morbidity and mortality after CRS/HIPEC. Thereby suggesting severe frailty as a relative contraindication to CRS/HIPEC. They suggested considering frailty correlates as a selection factor in the evaluation of all candidates for CRS/HIPEC.
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