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Muscle Mass Predicts Outcomes Following Liver Transplantation

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: For patients with end-stage liver disease commonly used indices of nutritional status (i.e. body weight and BMI) are often inflated due to fluid overload (i.e. ascites, peripheral edema) resulting in an underdiagnosis of malnutrition. As muscle is the largest protein reservoir i...

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Publicado en:Liver Transpl
Main Authors: DiMartini, Andrea, Cruz, Ruy J., Dew, Mary Amanda, Myaskovsky, Larissa, Goodpaster, Bret, Fox, Kristen, Kim, Kevin H., Fontes, Paulo
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382961/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23960026
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lt.23724
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