Liver frailty and impact of liver transplants on transplanted patients’ health
Victor Fernandez-Alonso, Ana Maria Hernandez-Matias, Manuela Perez-Gomez, Leyre Rodriguez-Leal, Maria Nieves Moro-Tejedor, Victor Fernandez-Alonso, Ana Maria Hernandez-Matias, Manuela Perez-Gomez, Leyre Rodriguez-Leal, Maria Nieves Moro-Tejedor, Victor Fernandez-Alonso

TL;DR
This study examines how liver frailty changes in patients awaiting liver transplants and finds that factors like alcohol-related liver disease and age impact frailty before and after the transplant.
Contribution
The study introduces the Liver Frailty Index as a tool to assess patient frailty and shows its improvement post-transplant, particularly in relation to age and disease etiology.
Findings
Liver frailty improves significantly after transplantation (p<0.001).
Patients with alcohol-related liver disease and unemployment have higher pre-transplant frailty.
Older patients tend to have higher liver frailty after transplantation.
Abstract
to analyse the Liver Frailty Index in a cohort of patients from their inclusion in the waiting list to one year after the liver transplant. a cohort study with patients included in a liver transplant waiting list from January 2020 to December 2021. The variables were analysed and the hypothesis were contrasted by means of the Mann-Whitney U and Spearman’s correlation test, a paired measures test and multivariate analysis. the sample consisted in n=51 patients with a mean age of 57.20 years old (SD=9.70), with 74.50% of men. The mean pre-transplant Liver Frailty index was 3.71 (SD=0.74), reaching higher values in patients with advanced liver disease (p=0.004), alcohol-related etiology (p=0.039) and unemployed (p=0.014). Liver frailty improved after the transplant (p<0.001), keeping a directly proportional correlation with age (p=0.014). advanced liver disease, etiology related to…
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Taxonomy
TopicsNutrition and Health in Aging · Liver Disease and Transplantation · Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
