Chronological changes in skeletal muscle mass following living‐donor liver transplantation: An analysis of the predictive factors for long‐term post‐transplant low muscularity

Abstract

Intensive care unit length of stay, biliary complications and preoperative and 1 month post-LT low SMM were predictive factors for long-term low SMM. Newly developed low SMM at 1 year post-LT was a prognostic factor for a poor patient survival.