Trial reportClinical transplantation2019
Discharge frailty following lung transplantation.
Trial report in Clinical transplantation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- In a prospective population-based study, the degree of mobility impairment during hospitalisation is associated with higher degrees of frailty.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- The Path Forward: A Review on Enhanced Recovery After Cardiothoracic Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Review
- Physical Rehabilitation Before and After Lung Transplantation for COVID-19 ARDS: A Case Report.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2023Article
- Rehabilitation for People with Respiratory Disease and Frailty: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Prehabilitation in Adult Solid Organ Transplant Candidates.Current transplantation reports · 2023Review
- Old Age and Frailty in Deceased Organ Transplantation and Allocation-A Plea for Geriatric Assessment and Prehabilitation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
- Frailty and solid-organ transplant candidates: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- The Intersection of Aging and Lung Transplantation: its Impact on Transplant Evaluation, Outcomes, and Clinical Care.Current transplantation reports · 2022Article
- Psychosocial factors related to physical activity in frail and prefrail elderly people.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Cognitive impairment in candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.Bone marrow transplantation · 2022Article
- Frailty in Lung Transplantation: Candidate Assessment and Optimization.Transplantation · 2021Article
- Frailty and aging-associated syndromes in lung transplant candidates and recipients.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021Review
- Frailty and the Potential Kidney Transplant Recipient: Time for a More Holistic Assessment?Kidney360 · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionFrailty at listing for lung transplant has been associated with waitlist and post-transplant mortality. Frailty trajectories following transplant, however, have been less well characterized, including whether recipient frailty improves. The objective of this study was to identify prevalence and risk factors for frailty at discharge and to evaluate changes in frail recipients enrolled in an outpatient physical therapy program.
methodsThis was a single-center prospective cohort study of lung transplant recipients. Enrollees completed a short physical performance battery (SPPB) to assess frailty at listing and at initial hospital discharge.
resultsOf the 111 enrolled recipients, none were frail at listing and 18 (16.2%) were prefrail. At discharge, however, 60 (54.1%) patients were frail. Discharge frailty was associated with prefrailty at listing, acute kidney injury post-transplant, and longer intensive care unit stay. Among the 35 patients who were frail at discharge and who were enrolled in an outpatient PT program, the median improvement in SPPB was 6 points (IQR = 5-7 points), and 85.7% became not frail over a median of 6 weeks.
conclusionDischarge frailty is common following lung transplantation. In most frail patients, an intensive outpatient physical therapy program is associated with improvement in frailty, as assessed by the SPPB.
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