Pre-liver transplant frailty increases risk for worse global functional health outcomes

Physical frailty before liver transplant correlated with poor functional status and health-related quality of life 1 year after surgery among patients with cirrhosis, according to research published in JAMA Surgery.

“As the quantity of posttransplant years of life improves, it is crucial to better understand the factors, particularly those that are modifiable, that contribute to patients’ quality of life during those posttransplant years,” Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA, associate professor of medicine and endowed professor of liver health and transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues wrote.  Read more in Healio.