Poor performance of psoas muscle index for identification of patients with higher waitlist mortality risk in cirrhosis

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia, characterized by low muscle mass, associates with mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Skeletal muscle area in a single computed tomography image at the level of the third lumbar vertebrate (L3) is a valid representative of whole body muscle mass. Controversy remains regardi...

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Autores principales: Ebadi, Maryam, Wang, Connie W., Lai, Jennifer C., Dasarathy, Srinivasan, Kappus, Matthew R., Dunn, Michael A., Carey, Elizabeth J., Montano‐Loza, Aldo J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6240754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30269421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12349

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