1. Sarcopenia assessed by the quantity and quality of skeletal muscle is a prognostic factor for patients undergoing cardiac surgery
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Hirotsugu Fukuda, Masahiro Tezuka, Yusuke Takei, Yuriko Kiriya, Masahiro Seki, Takashi Kato, Hironaga Ogawa, Ikuko Shibasaki, Koji Ogata, Alan Kawarai Lefor, and Nakajima Toshiaki
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Sarcopenia ,Adipose tissue ,030230 surgery ,Gastroenterology ,Risk Assessment ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Postoperative Complications ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Risk factor ,Cardiac Surgical Procedures ,Muscle, Skeletal ,Aged ,business.industry ,Skeletal muscle ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Perioperative ,medicine.disease ,Prognosis ,Confidence interval ,Cardiac surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Adipose Tissue ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Preoperative Period ,Surgery ,Female ,business ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed - Abstract
Sarcopenia was assessed as a prognostic factor for patients undergoing cardiac surgery by evaluating the quantity and quality of skeletal muscle. Sarcopenia was assessed by perioperative abdominal computed tomography using the total psoas muscle index (TPI) and intra-muscular adipose tissue content (IMAC). Patients were classified into high- (HT, n = 143) and low- (LT, n = 63) TPI groups and low- (LI, n = 122) and high- (HI, n = 84) IMAC groups. There were significantly more complications in the LT and HI groups than in the HT and LI groups. (HT 15.4% vs. LT 30.2%, P = 0.014) (LI 11.5% vs. HI 31.1%, P
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- 2019