Muscle atrophy as pre-sarcopenia in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease: computed tomography is useful for evaluation

BACKGROUND/AIM: The definition of muscle atrophy (pre-sarcopenia) and its diagnostic criteria have not been well reported. To elucidate the frequency of pre-sarcopenia in chronic liver disease (CLD), we examined clinical features of Japanese CLD patients using abdominal computed tomography (CT) find...

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Autores principales: Hiraoka, Atsushi, Aibiki, Toshihiko, Okudaira, Tomonari, Toshimori, Akiko, Kawamura, Tomoe, Nakahara, Hiromasa, Suga, Yoshifumi, Azemoto, Nobuaki, Miyata, Hideki, Miyamoto, Yasunao, Ninomiya, Tomoyuki, Hirooka, Masashi, Abe, Masanori, Matsuura, Bunzo, Hiasa, Yoichi, Michitaka, Kojiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Japan 2015
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Original Article—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25820219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00535-015-1068-x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4673094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25820219
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00535-015-1068-x

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