Severe muscle depletion in patients on the liver transplant wait list: Its prevalence and independent prognostic value

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1209-1216

  Tandon, Puneeta ^a   Ney, Michael ^a   Irwin, Ivana ^a   Ma, Mang M ^a   Gramlich, Leah ^a   Bain, Vincent G ^a   Esfandiari, Nina ^b   Baracos, Vickie ^b   Montano Loza, Aldo J ^a   Myers, Robert P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOPENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84867519687     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23495     Document Type: Article

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