Background Although frailty has been associated with increased risks for hospitalization and
mortality in chronic heart failure, the precise average effect remains uncertain. We performed …

The psychosocial evaluation is well-recognized as an important component of the
multifaceted assessment process to determine candidacy for heart transplantation, lung …

The systemic amyloidoses are a broad spectrum of diseases that result from misfolding of
proteins that aggregate into b-sheet amyloid fibrils. Over 35 amyloidogenic precursor …

Cochrane, Maria Crespo Leiro, Anne Dipchand, Brian Feingold, Kathleen Grady, Edward
Horn, Maryl Johnson, Donna Mancini, Sean Pinney, Heather Ross, Kari Wujcik, Andreas …

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 …

Heart failure (HF) and frailty are two distinct yet commonly associated conditions. The
interplay between the two conditions is complex, due to overlaps in underlying mechanisms …

Objectives Frailty is typically assessed in older populations. Identifying frailty in adults aged
under 60 years may also have value, if it supports the delivery of timely care. We sought to …

Frailty is associated with increased mortality among lung transplant candidates. We sought
to determine the association between frailty, as measured by the Short Physical …

Objectives: This study sought to assess the prevalence of frailty, its associations with
physical function, quality of life (QoL), cognition, and depression and to investigate more …