The construct of frailty was first developed in gerontology to help identify older adults with
increased vulnerability when confronted with a health stressor. This article is a review of …

Frailty, characterized by a decreased physiological reserve and an increased vulnerability to
stressors, is common among kidney transplant (KT) candidates and recipients. In this review …

Background: Frailty, originally characterized in community-dwelling older adults, is
increasingly being studied and implemented for adult patients with end-stage kidney …

Background Frailty is associated with poor outcomes in surgical patients including kidney
transplant (KT) recipients. Transplant centers that measure frailty have better pre-and …

Background Frailty predicts adverse post-kidney transplant (KT) outcomes, yet the impact of
frailty assessment on center-level outcomes remains unclear. We sought to test whether …

Background Among adult kidney transplant (KT) candidates, 21% are frail and 55% have
cognitive impairment, increasing the risk of pre-and post-KT mortality. Centers often assess …

Kidney allograft failure and return to dialysis carry a high risk of morbidity. A practice survey
was developed by the AST Kidney Pancreas Community of Practice workgroup and …

Kidney transplantation (KT) experts did not support the use of subjective unintentional
weight loss to measure shrinking in the physical frailty phenotype (PFP); a clinically feasible …

Background. Although the population of older transplant recipients has increased
dramatically, there are limited data describing the impact of immunosuppression regimen …

Background Physical frailty phenotype is characterized by decreased physiologic reserve to
stressors and associated with poor outcomes, such as delirium and mortality, that may result …