Skeletal muscle quality as assessed by CT-derived skeletal muscle density is associated with 6-month mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients

Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Looijaard, Wilhelmus G P M ^a   Dekker, Ingeborg M ^a   Stapel, Sandra N ^a   Girbes, Armand R J ^a   Twisk, Jos W R ^a   Oudemans van Straaten, Heleen M ^a   Weijs, Peter J M ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT; Intensive care unit; Intermuscular adipose tissue; Mortality; Muscle; Muscle quality; Myosteatosis; Outcome; Skeletal muscle density

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGE; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SURVIVAL RATE; ABDOMINAL WALL; AGED; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84999779284     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-016-1563-3     Document Type: Article

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