| Autor: |
María D. Lledín, Manuel Parrón-Pajares, Ana Morais, Francisco Hernández-Oliveros, Jose I. Botella-Carretero, Loreto Hierro |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Frontiers in Pediatrics, Vol 10 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2296-2360 |
| DOI: |
10.3389/fped.2022.1093880 |
| Popis: |
BackgroundSarcopenia in adult cirrhotic patients is associated with increased morbidity and mortality whereas in children it is still being studied. Anthropometric variables in cirrhotic children are not reliable for assessing muscle mass as they may be altered by ascites, edema, and organomegaly. Measuring the area of the psoas showed good correlation with muscle mass in adults. We aimed to study in cirrhotic infants undergoing liver transplantation the association of the psoas area with liver transplant prognosis as well as with several analytical and anthropometric parameters used to evaluate nutritional status.MethodsRetrospective cohort of 29 infants with cirrhosis due to biliary atresia who underwent abdominal CT scan as a pre-transplant study. We measured the psoas muscle index (PMI) at L4-L5 since it best correlates with muscle mass in pediatric patients. As there are no validated cut-off points to define sarcopenia in children under one year of age, PMI was recorded as a continuous variable and correlated with different prognostic, clinical, and analytical variables. The SPSS 17.0 package was used for statistical analysis and a P |
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