Frailty and the Potential Kidney Transplant Recipient: Time for a More Holistic Assessment?

Henry H L Wu; Alexander Woywodt; Andrew C Nixon

doi:10.34067/KID.0001822020

Frailty and the Potential Kidney Transplant Recipient: Time for a More Holistic Assessment?

Kidney360. 2020 May 22;1(7):685-690. doi: 10.34067/KID.0001822020. eCollection 2020 Jul 30.

Authors

Henry H L Wu^{1

2}, Alexander Woywodt^{1

2}, Andrew C Nixon^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Renal Medicine, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, United Kingdom.
² Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
³ Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: assessment; chronic; decision making; frailty; geriatric nephrology; quality of life; renal insufficiency; renal replacement therapy; renal transplantation; shared.

MeSH terms

Frailty* / diagnosis
Humans
Kidney Transplantation* / adverse effects
Nephrology*
Renal Dialysis