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Impact of Skeletal Muscle Mass Index, Intramuscular Adipose Tissue Content, and Visceral to Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Area Ratio on Early Mortality of Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Yuhei Hamaguchi, Toshimi Kaido, Shinya Okumura, Atsushi Kobayashi, Hisaya Shirai, Shintaro Yagi, Naoko Kamo, Hideaki Okajima, Shinji Üemoto

Transplantation · 2016 · 149 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

Preoperative visceral adiposity, as well as low muscularity, was closely involved with posttransplant mortality.

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Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis

Alfonso J. Cruz‐Jentoft, Jean‐Pierre Baeyens, Jürgen M. Bauer et al. · Age and Ageing · 2010 · 11.5K citations · Full text

Prevalence and clinical implications of sarcopenic obesity in patients with solid tumours of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts: a population-based study

Carla M. Prado, Jessica Lieffers, Linda J. McCargar et al. · The Lancet Oncology · 2008 · 3.1K citations

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Cause-Specific Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity

Katherine M. Flegal, Barry I. Graubard, David F. Williamson et al. · JAMA · 2007 · 1.5K citations

Cadaver validation of skeletal muscle measurement by magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography

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Hyponatremia and Mortality among Patients on the Liver-Transplant Waiting List

W. Ray Kim, Scott W. Biggins, Walter K. Kremers et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2008 · 1.4K citations · Full text