Ultrasound imaging, a stethoscope for body composition assessment
Autor: | Giuseppe Guglielmi, Alessandro Napoli, Alberto Bazzocchi, Antonio De Cinque, Federico Ponti, Nicola Fazio |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Ultrasound Adipose tissue Skeletal muscle Context (language use) Review Article 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Review article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Sarcopenia medicine Abdomen Endocrine system Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging 030212 general & internal medicine business |
Zdroj: | Quant Imaging Med Surg |
ISSN: | 2223-4306 2223-4292 |
Popis: | Dysregulation of the human's energy balance, mediated by non-performing endocrine organs (liver, skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, above all), can be related to human metabolic disorders characterized by an impaired body composition (BC), such as obesity and sarcopenia. While it is possible to monitor the BC and its variations at different levels, the tissue-organ composition studies have been proven to provide the most clinically applicable information. Ultrasonography (US), a fast, non-invasive, low-cost and widely available technique, holds great potential in the study of BC, as it can directly measure muscles, organs, visceral and subcutaneous fat tissue in different sections of the abdomen and body, overcoming some limits of anthropometric evaluation and other imaging techniques. Purpose of this review article is to explore the technical aspects and the applied methods of US examination to assess the potential clinical role of this technique in the context of BC characterization, investigating four pivotal topics [abdominal fat compartments, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), skeletal muscle, liver]. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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