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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Veröffentlicht in:Liver Transpl
Hauptverfasser: DiMartini, Andrea, Cruz, Ruy J., Dew, Mary Amanda, Myaskovsky, Larissa, Goodpaster, Bret, Fox, Kristen, Kim, Kevin H., Fontes, Paulo
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2013
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Online Zugang: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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