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Report from the American Society of Transplantation on frailty in solid organ transplantation

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This conference achieved its intent to highlight the importance of frailty in organ transplantation and to plant the seeds for further discussion and research in this field.
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This article is published in American Journal of Transplantation.The article was published on 2018-12-22 and is currently open access. It has received 146 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Transplantation & Organ transplantation.

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Use of Ventricular Assist Devices and Heart Transplantation for Advanced Heart Failure.

TL;DR: The significant improvement in outcomes now possible with durable ventricular assist devices has led to a significant increase in their use, which now exceeds the volume of heart transplants in the United States, with the greatest growth in use for those not considered to be candidates for heart transplantation.
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ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with acute or chronic kidney disease.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide evidence-based recommendations for clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with acute kidney disease (AKD) and chronic kidney disease(CKD) using a structured consensus process, in order to update the ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral (2006) and Parenteral (2009) Nutrition in Adult Renal Failure.
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Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

TL;DR: This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition, and finds that there is an intermediate stage identifying those at high risk of frailty.
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Frailty in elderly people

TL;DR: Developing more efficient methods to detect frailty and measure its severity in routine clinical practice would greatly inform the appropriate selection of elderly people for invasive procedures or drug treatments and would be the basis for a shift in the care of frail elderly people towards more appropriate goal-directed care.
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Frailty in Relation to the Accumulation of Deficits

TL;DR: Although based on a simple count, the frailty index shows several interesting properties, including a characteristic rate of accumulation, a submaximal limit, and characteristic changes with age in its distribution.
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