Transplant Medicine

Overview

Gastroenterologist Jayant A. Talwalkar, M.D., discusses how frailty affects and can predict liver transplant outcomes in patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Dr. Talwalker comments on a study — Standard Assessments of Frailty Are Validated Predictors of Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Cirrhosis — that concluded that standardized measures of frailty predict 90-day mortality, length of hospital stay and rehabilitation needs for people hospitalized with cirrhosis. The study was published by Elliot B. Tapper, M.D., and others in Hepatology in April 2015.