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ArticleTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2023

Old Age and Frailty in Deceased Organ Transplantation and Allocation-A Plea for Geriatric Assessment and Prehabilitation.

Arved Weimann, Marlies Ahlert, Daniel Seehofer, Tania Zieschang, Mark Schweda

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Article in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Integrating senotherapeutics into transplantation: liver reconditioning in an aging donor pool.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Arved WeimannDepartment of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery, St. George Hospital, Leipzig, Germany.
Marlies AhlertDepartment of Economics, Martin-Luther-University of Halle, Halle, Germany.
Daniel SeehoferDepartment of Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Tania ZieschangDivision of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Health Services Research, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Mark SchwedaDivision of Medical Ethics, Department of Health Services Research, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · DEMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg · DEUniversity Hospital Leipzig · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to demographic ageing and medical progress, the number and proportion of older organ donors and recipients is increasing. At the same time, the medical and ethical significance of ageing and old age for organ transplantation needs clarification. Advanced age is associated with the frailty syndrome that has a negative impact on the success of organ transplantation. However, there is emerging evidence that frailty can be modified by suitable prehabilitation measures. Against this backdrop, we argue that decision making about access to the transplant waiting list and the allocation of donor organs should integrate geriatric expertise in order to assess and manage frailty and impairments in functional capacity. Prehabilitation should be implemented as a new strategy for pre-operative conditioning of older risk patients' functional capacity. From an ethical point of view, advanced chronological age

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FrailtyOrgan TransplantationTissue and Organ ProcurementAgedFrail ElderlyGeriatric AssessmentHumansPreoperative ExerciseTissue DonorsWaiting Listsfrailtyold ageorgan allocationorgan transplantationprehabilitation

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PMID37476294
PMCPMC10354295
OpenAlexW4383294917

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