Malnutrition, sarcopenia, and frailty assessment in pediatric transplantation

SS Beer, M Wong Vega - Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nutrition assessment can be challenging in children with end‐stage organ disease and in
those requiring an organ transplant. The effect of poor nutrition status can exert long‐lasting …

Ehealth technology in cardiac exercise therapeutics for pediatric patients with congenital and acquired heart conditions: a summary of evidence and future directions

DA White, AM Layton, T Curran, N Gauthier… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Many children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease (CHD) are
physically inactive and participate in an insufficient amount of moderate-to-vigorous intensity …

Handgrip strength and health outcomes in hospitalized children or children with chronic disease: A systematic review

L Verbrugghe, A Larue, H Delcourt… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Handgrip strength (HGS) is a simple measurement of maximum voluntary muscle strength
and is widely used as a single indicator of overall muscle strength. This systematic review …

Exploring frailty: muscle strength, functional capacity, activities of daily living and cognition in adult congenital heart disease

C Topcuoglu, N Vardar Yagli, HH Aykan… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose The study aimed to assess frailty in adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD)
and to compare muscle strength, functional capacity, activities of daily living (ADL), and …

Moderators of peak respiratory exchange ratio during exercise testing in children and adolescents with Fontan physiology

PM Carey, HW Yeh, K Krzywda, KM Teson… - Cardiology in the …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Objectives: Many patients with Fontan physiology are unable to achieve the minimum
criteria for peak effort during cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The purpose of this study is …

Identifying Frailty and Its Risk Factors in Pediatric Patients with Fontan Physiology

MM Wilde, KR Schumacher, S Yu, R Lowery… - Pediatric …, 2024 - Springer
Frailty is a clinical syndrome common in adults with chronic disease with resultant
vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. Little is known about frailty in pediatric patients …

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction and Frailty: From Young to Superaged Coexisting HFpEF and Frailty

A Rakisheva, A Soloveva… - … Journal of Heart …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Being commonly diagnosed in elderly women and associated with comorbidities as well as
ageing-related cardio-vascular changes, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction …

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the Evaluation and Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates—2024

Y Peled, A Ducharme, M Kittleson, N Bansal… - The Journal of Heart and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The “International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Guidelines for the Evaluation
and Care of Cardiac Transplant Candidates—2024” updates and replaces the “Listing …

Utility of Combining Frailty and Comorbid Disease Indices to Better Predict Outcomes Following Craniotomy for Pediatric Primary Brain Tumors

A Nguyen, M Michel, S Shahrestani, AE Boyke… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
ObjectiveThere are no predictive outcome scales that have been validated in pediatric
patients with brain tumors. As the cost of care increases for patients, an index can help …