Proposal for new selection criteria considering pre‐transplant muscularity and visceral adiposity in living donor liver transplantation

• Main Authors: Yuhei Hamaguchi (Author), Toshimi Kaido (Author), Shinya Okumura (Author), Atsushi Kobayashi (Author), Hisaya Shirai (Author), Siyuan Yao (Author), Shintaro Yagi (Author), Naoko Kamo (Author), Hideaki Okajima (Author), Shinji Uemoto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The significance of pre‐operative body composition has recently attracted much attention in various diseases. However, cut‐off values for these parameters remain undetermined, and these factors are not currently included in selection criteria for recipients of living donor liver...