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Malnutrition and sarcopenia predict post‐liver transplantation outcomes independently of the Model for End‐stage Liver Disease score

BACKGROUND: Although malnutrition and sarcopenia are prevalent in cirrhosis, their impact on outcomes following liver transplantation is not well documented. METHODS: The associations of nutritional status and sarcopenia with post‐transplant infections, requirement for mechanical ventilation, intens...

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Autores principales: Kalafateli, Maria, Mantzoukis, Konstantinos, Choi Yau, Yan, Mohammad, Ali O., Arora, Simran, Rodrigues, Susana, de Vos, Marie, Papadimitriou, Kassiani, Thorburn, Douglas, O'Beirne, James, Patch, David, Pinzani, Massimo, Morgan, Marsha Y., Agarwal, Banwari, Yu, Dominic, Burroughs, Andrew K., Tsochatzis, Emmanuel A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239424
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12095