The Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index as an Alternative to the EuroSCORE II in Estimating Cardiac Surgery Risk
The GNRI demonstrates predictive power for all-cause 30-day mortality comparable to the EuroSCORE II in a real-world patient cohort. GNRI offers a substantial simplification of risk estimation in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB.
Authors
- Stefan Holdenrieder
- Andrea Amabile (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4689-3871)
- Johannes Boehm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5191-0360)
- Markus Krane (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5466-9290)
- Melchior Burri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8540-7090)
Institutions
- Yale New Haven Hospital (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Yale University (US)
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DE)
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
- Deutsches Herzzentrum München (DE)
- Technical University of Munich (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- Published
- 2025-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezaf335
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.45