Post- Liver Transplantation Sarcopenia in Cirrhosis: a Prospective Evaluation

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Pre-transplant sarcopenia (reduced skeletal muscle mass) predicts poor outcome in cirrhosis. In contrast, whether muscle mass increases post orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is not known and was studied prospectively. METHODS: Consecutive patients who underwent a comprehens...

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Main Authors: Tsien, Cynthia, Garber, Ari, Narayanan, Arvind, Shah, Shetal N, Barnes, David, Eghtesad, Bijan, Fung, John, McCullough, Arthur J, Dasarathy, Srinivasan
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024321/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24443785
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgh.12524
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