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Clinical Presentation and Therapeutic Approach of Hepatic Sarcoidosis

open access: yesLivers
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic inflammatory disease defined by non-caseating granuloma formation in involved organs. The liver is the third most implicated organ after the lungs and lymph nodes.
Vittoria Benintende   +5 more
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EXAMINING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DOMAINS OF FRAILTY AND 6-MONTH CHANGES IN HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE, LIVING STATUS, AND TREATMENT DECISIONAL REGRET AMONG OLDER PATIENTS REFERRED FOR CARDIAC SURGERY

open access: yes, 2020
Full Abstract: Background: Frailty status, which takes function into account, may be a better measure for older patients’ health status. Frailty is a risk factor for various adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery.
Gainer, Ryan
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Perioperative Frailty [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Anesthesiology Clinics, 2014
Levana G, Amrock, Stacie, Deiner
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Frailty: An overview

open access: yesJournal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
A BSTRACT Frailty is an emerging global health concern driven by population aging and rising prevalence of multimorbidity. It is a multidimensional geriatric syndrome characterized by reduced physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors, leading to adverse ...
Kalladi, Rahmath   +3 more
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Integrating Frailty and Physical Resilience to Improve Risk Estimation in Aging Populations

open access: yes
Background: Physical resilience, broadly defined as the ability to resist or recover from health stressors, is a relatively new concept in the field of aging, yet, anticipated as a potentially game-changing idea.
Smith, Nathan Kyle
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Evaluation of Frailty Levels in Hemodialysis Patients [PDF]

open access: yes
Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between: the etiology of chronic renal failure (CRF), hemodialysis duration, body mass index, residual renal function (RRF), ultrafiltration volume, dialysis dose value, and frailty levels by
Kemal Mağden
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Reply Letter: A Commentary on “A Predictive Model of Failure to Rescue After Thoracolumbar Fusion” [PDF]

open access: yesNeurospine
Joanna M. Roy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of ACE inhibitors on frailty, cardiac contractile function and calcium homeostasis in middle-aged male and female mice

open access: yes, 2016
Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) inhibitors were chronically administered to middle-aged male and female mice to determine whether treatment with ACE inhibitors attenuates frailty and whether this is accompanied by changes in cardiac function.
Keller, Kaitlyn
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‘Focus on Frailty’: Co-Designing Digital Frailty Education with Healthcare Students

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Kristiana Ludlow,1,2 Sarah Martin,1,2 Benignus Logan,1,2 Ruth E Hubbard,1– 3 Nicola Warren,2,4,5 Olivia Gallagher,6,7 Bonnie K Kwok,1,8 Rosemary Saunders2,9 1Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland ...
Warren N   +7 more
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Physical frailty predicts adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients with acute decompensation of cirrhosis

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reservedBACKGROUND AND AIM: Patients with end-stage liver disease are at high risk of malnutrition, sarcopenia and frailty. Recent evidence indicates that physical frailty, as assessed by liver frailty index (LFI), is an independent predictor of ...
D'ARCANGELO, FRANCESCA
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