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Sarcopenia in Children With End‐Stage Liver Disease on the Transplant Waiting List

Sarcopenia predicts morbidity and mortality in adults with end‐stage liver disease (ESLD) and is determined by total psoas muscle area (tPMA) measurement from computed tomography (CT) imaging. Recently developed pediatric age‐ and sex‐specific tPMA growth curves provide the opportunity to ascertain...

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Autores principales: Woolfson, Jessica P., Perez, Manuela, Chavhan, Govind B., Johara, Fatema T., Lurz, Eberhard, Kamath, Binita M., Ng, Vicky L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33460522
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lt.25985