Chest Fat Quantification via CT Based on Standardized Anatomy Space in Adult Lung Transplant Candidates

PURPOSE: Overweight and underweight conditions are considered relative contraindications to lung transplantation due to their association with excess mortality. Yet, recent work suggests that body mass index (BMI) does not accurately reflect adipose tissue mass in adults with advanced lung diseases....

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Autores principales: Tong, Yubing, Udupa, Jayaram K., Torigian, Drew A., Odhner, Dewey, Wu, Caiyun, Pednekar, Gargi, Palmer, Scott, Rozenshtein, Anna, Shirk, Melissa A., Newell, John D., Porteous, Mary, Diamond, Joshua M., Christie, Jason D., Lederer, David J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5207652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28046024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168932

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