Malnutrition provides important long-term prognostic information in patients undergoing endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

CONCLUSIONS: Malnutrition is associated with significant increase in postoperative long-term mortality in endovascular aortic replacement patients. Preoperatively calculated objective nutritional indexes especially prognostic nutritional index can be used as an important prognostic tool.
PMID: 32998666 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Vascular - September 29, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Demir AR, Celik O, Uygur B, Somuncu MU, Bayram M, Yilmaz E, Avci Y, Sevinc S, Tasbulak O, Bulut U, Ersoy B, Erturk M Tags: Vascular Source Type: research