Functional decline in patients with cirrhosis awaiting liver transplantation: Results from the functional assessment in liver transplantation (FrAILT) study

Hepatology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 574-580

  Lai, Jennifer C ^a   Dodge, Jennifer L ^a   Sen, Saunak ^a   Covinsky, Kenneth ^a   Feng, Sandy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; GAIT; GRIP STRENGTH; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERE HEPATIC IMPAIRMENT; SHORT PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE BATTERY; STANDING; WALKING SPEED; AGED; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84956723192     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.28316     Document Type: Article

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