Assessing Short-Term Outcomes and Frailty Measures Following Lung Transplantation

The following is a summary of “Evaluation of Frailty Measures and Short-term Outcomes After Lung Transplantation,” published in the July 2023 issue of the Chest by  Swaminathan et al.

Before and after lung transplantation, frailty, measured as a singular construct, is associated with variable poor outcomes. Unknown is the utility of a comprehensive frailty assessment before transplantation. How do multiple frailty constructs, such as phenotypic and cumulative deficit models, muscle mass, exercise tolerance, and social vulnerabilities measured before lung transplantation, relate to short-term outcomes? Read the complete article in Physician’s Weekly.