%0 Journal Article %T Reversibility of Frailty After Bridge-to-Transplant Ventricular Assist Device Implantation or Heart Transplantation %A Andrew Jabbour %A Angela Smith %A Anne Keogh %A Christopher S. Hayward %A Elyn Montgomery %A Emily Granger %A Eugene Kotlyar %A Kay Wilhelm %A Kumud Dhital %A Malin K. Hannu %A Mark Connellan %A Michelle Harkess %A Patricia M. Davidson %A Paul Jansz %A Peta Tunicliff %A Peter S. Macdonald %A Phillip J. Newton %A Phillip M. Spratt %A Sunita R. Jha %J Archive of "Transplantation Direct". %D 2017 %R 10.1097/TXD.0000000000000690 %X We recently reported that frailty is independently predictive of increased mortality in patients with advanced heart failure referred for heart transplantation (HTx). The aim of this study was to assess the impact of frailty on short-term outcomes after bridge-to-transplant ventricular assist device (BTT-VAD) implantation and/or HTx and to determine if frailty is reversible after these procedures %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5498008/