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

• मुख्य लेखकों: Maryam Ebadi (लेखक), Connie W. Wang (लेखक), Jennifer C. Lai (लेखक), Srinivasan Dasarathy (लेखक), Matthew R. Kappus (लेखक), Michael A. Dunn (लेखक), Elizabeth J. Carey (लेखक), Aldo J. Montano‐Loza (लेखक), From the Fitness, Life Enhancement, and Exercise in Liver Transplantation (FLEXIT) (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Wiley, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: 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...