Physiologic Reserve Assessment and Application in Clinical and Research Settings in Liver Transplantation
Rahima A. Bhanji, Kymberly D. Watt – 12 March 2021 – Physiologic reserve is an important prognostic indicator. Because of its complexity, no single test can measure an individual’s physiologic reserve. Frailty is the phenotypic expression of decreased reserve and portends poor prognosis. Both subjective and objective tools have been used to measure one or more components of physiologic reserve. Most of these tools appear to predict pretransplant mortality, but only some predict posttransplant survival.