Clinical usefulness of psoas muscle thickness for the diagnosis of sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis
| Autor: | Dae Hoe Gu, Moon Young Kim, Yeon Seok Seo, Sang Gyune Kim, Han Ah Lee, Tae Hyung Kim, Young Kul Jung, Altay Kandemir, Ji Hoon Kim, Hyunggin An, Hyung Joon Yim, Jong Eun Yeon, Kwan Soo Byun, Soon Ho Um |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, Vol 24, Iss 3, Pp 319-330 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2287-2728 2287-285X |
| DOI: | 10.3350/cmh.2017.0077 |
| Popis: | Background/Aims The most widely used method for diagnosing sarcopenia is the skeletal muscle index (SMI). Several studies have suggested that psoas muscle thickness per height (PMTH) is also effective for detecting sarcopenia and predicting prognosis in patients with cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the optimal cutoff values of PMTH for detecting sarcopenia in cirrhotic patients. Methods All cirrhotic patients who underwent abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan including L3 and umbilical levels for measuring SMI and transverse psoas muscle thickness, respectively, were included. Two definitions of sarcopenia were used: (1) sex-specific cutoffs of SMI (≤52.4 cm2 /m2 in men and ≤38.5 cm2 /m2 in women) for SMI-sarcopenia and (2) cutoff of PMTH ( |
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