Frailty is an emerging global health burden, with major implications for clinical practice and
public health. The prevalence of frailty is expected to rise alongside rapid growth in the …

Abstract The 2020 Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Clinical Practice
Guideline on the Evaluation and Management of Candidates for Kidney Transplantation is …

Cirrhosis is characterized by muscle wasting, malnutrition, and functional decline that confer
excess mortality not well quantified by the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) …

A consensus conference on frailty in kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplantation sponsored
by the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and endorsed by the American Society of …

Frailty is defined as a reduced physiologic reserve vulnerable to external stressors. For older
individuals, frailty plays a decisive role in increasing adverse health outcomes in most …

Objective: To test whether frailty, a novel measure of physiologic reserve, is associated with
longer kidney transplant (KT) length of stay (LOS), and modifies the association between …

Rationale: Frailty is associated with morbidity and mortality in abdominal organ
transplantation but has not been examined in lung transplantation. Objectives: To examine …

Results At cohort entry, the mean age was 54.8 years (SD 13.3), 56.5% were men, and
72.8% were black. The prevalence of frailty and intermediate frailty were 34.0% and 37.7 …

In recent years, a concept of renal rehabilitation has become widely known among
nephrology specialists, dialysis specialists, kidney transplantation specialists, rehabilitation …

Prehabilitation is the process of enhancing preoperative functional capacity to improve
tolerance for the upcoming stressor; it was associated with improved postoperative …