Comparing Functional Frailty and Radiographic Sarcopenia as Predictors of Outcomes After Liver Transplant.

Sydney L Olson Praneet Polineni William Alexander Henry Schwartz Avesh J Thuluvath Andrés Duarte-Rojo Daniela P Ladner

Published in: Clinical transplantation (2024)

Radiographic sarcopenia is a suitable proxy for in-person frailty assessment as both L3-PMI and LFI capture frail patients' pre-LT. However, physical assessment with frailty better predicts 1-year mortality post-LT than the measurement of muscle mass.

Keyphrases

community dwelling
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
skeletal muscle
chronic kidney disease
physical activity
peritoneal dialysis
type diabetes
risk factors
patient reported outcomes
coronary artery disease
patient reported