Identifying an Optimal Liver Frailty Index Cutoff to Predict Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates.
Ani A KardashianJin GeCharles E McCullochMatthew Robert KappusMichael A DunnAndrés Duarte-RojoMichael L VolkRobert S RahimiElizabeth C VernaDaniel R GangerDaniela LadnerJennifer L DodgeBrian BoyarskyMara McAdams-DeMarcoDorry L SegevJennifer C LaiPublished in: Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (2020)
LFI is predictive of waitlist mortality across a wide spectrum of LFI values. The optimal LFI cutoff for waitlist mortality was 4.4 at 3 months and 4.2 at 6 and 12 months. The discriminative performance of LFI+MELDNa was greater than MELDNa alone. Our data suggest that incorporating LFI with MELDNa can more accurately represent waitlist mortality in LT candidates.