Computed Tomography-Assessed Sarcopenia Predicts Mortality in Kidney Transplant Candidates

CONCLUSIONS: Sarcopenia was ~5 times more frequent in patients with end-stage renal disease than in healthy controls and was positively correlated with the prognostic nutritional index. Sarcopenia was an independent risk factor for mortality in patients on transplant waiting lists.PMID:38695590 | DOI:10.6002/ect.2023.0050

Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - May 2, 2024 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Harun Coban Dilek Barutcu Atas Murat Tugcu Meltem Kursun Canan Cimsit Ebru Asicioglu Hakki Arikan Serhan Tuglular Arzu Velioglu Source Type: research