Thoracic skeletal muscle quantification: low muscle mass is related with worse prognosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia can contribute to negative outcomes in patients with various lung diseases. However, whether sarcopenia affects prognosis in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) has not been reported. Simple measures of muscle mass, derived from chest computed tomography (CT), ar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Respir Res
Hauptverfasser: Moon, Sung Woo, Choi, Ji Soo, Lee, Sang Hoon, Jung, Kyung Soo, Jung, Ji Ye, Kang, Young Ae, Park, Moo Suk, Kim, Young Sam, Chang, Joon, Kim, Song Yee
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6376641/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30767787
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-019-1001-6
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