Psoas Muscle Area and Sarcopenia - Bridging the Gap

In this issue, Antoniou et  al. report on the prognostic role of low psoas muscle area (PMA) in overall survival of patients with asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) undergoing open and endovascular aneurysm repair.1 Their meta-analysis of seven cohort studies concluded that patients with low PMA had a significant ly higher odds of mortality compared with patients with more PMA. Therefore, the authors postulate that PMA may be used as a prognostic tool in the pre-operative risk management and stratification of patients, even considering some of the methodological challenges identified in this review.
Source: European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Invited Commentary Source Type: research