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

• Main Authors: Maryam Ebadi (Author), Connie W. Wang (Author), Jennifer C. Lai (Author), Srinivasan Dasarathy (Author), Matthew R. Kappus (Author), Michael A. Dunn (Author), Elizabeth J. Carey (Author), Aldo J. Montano‐Loza (Author), From the Fitness, Life Enhancement, and Exercise in Liver Transplantation (FLEXIT) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract 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...