Sarcopenia Is Associated With Development of Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure in Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis Receiving Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt

Muscle mass has been shown to be a prognostic marker in patients with liver cirrhosis. Transversal psoas muscle thickness normalized by height (TPMT/height) obtained by routine computed tomography is a simple surrogate parameter for sarcopenia. TPMT/height, however, is not sex specific, which might...

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Autores principales: Praktiknjo, Michael, Clees, Caroline, Pigliacelli, Alessandra, Fischer, Stefan, Jansen, Christian, Lehmann, Jennifer, Pohlmann, Alessandra, Lattanzi, Barbara, Krabbe, Viktoria Katharina, Strassburg, Christian P., Arroyo, Vicente, Merli, Manuela, Meyer, Carsten, Trebicka, Jonel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939488
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/ctg.0000000000000025

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6602782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30939488
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/ctg.0000000000000025

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