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When a liver transplant recipient is frail at 12 months, which downstream complications do you monitor more proactively (e.g., falls/fractures, cardiovascular events, infections, renal decline, cognitive decline), and what follow-up cadence do you use in the subsequent year?

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Does your liver transplant program utilize a frailty assessment/program for transplant candidates?

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Hepatology · Northwestern Memorial Hospital
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There are several reasons why a patient is frail at 12 months post-transplant. One needs to take the reasons and specific treatments into account (rejections, biliary complications and interventions, recurrence of original disease) and also whether frailty was a pre-transplant condition. Certainly, ...

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