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Frailty in Lung Transplantation: Candidate Assessment and Optimization.
Transplantation - 1 Oct 2021
Agarwal Ankita, Neujahr David C
Abstract excerpt
The concept of frailty has gained considerable interest in clinical solid-organ transplantation over the past decade. Frailty as a phenotypic construct to describe a patient's risk from biologic stresses has an impact on posttransplant survival. There is keen interest in characterizing frailty in lung transplantation, both to determine which patients are suitable candidates for listing and also to prepare for...
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