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Background
The role of pulmonary function testing (PFT) as a predictor of clinically relevant endpoints in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is unclear.
Objective
To determine the utility of PFT in the preoperative risk stratification of patients undergoing TAVR.
Methods
An evaluation of PFT (i.e., FEV1), arterial blood gases (i.e., PO2), the diagnosis of chronic obstructive lung...
Accurate hip fracture incidence and mortality rates are two essential requirements for FRAX calculators.To investigate the effects of change in mortality on FRAX-derived fracture estimates.Lebanese FRAX calculator was updated in 2012 from version 3.00 utilizing WHO mortality data from year 1999, and hip fracture incidence rates from 2007, to version 3.05 utilizing mortality data from 2009, but with...
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