Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Computed Tomography-Assessed Skeletal Muscle Mass on Outcome in Patients Awaiting or Undergoing Liver Transplantation

Functional Compromise Reflected by Sarcopenia, Frailty, and Nutritional Depletion Predicts Adverse Postoperative Outcome After Colorectal Cancer Surgery

(2015) Kostan W. Reisinger et al.   ANNALS OF SURGERY

Skeletal Muscle Depletion is Associated with Severe Postoperative Complications in Patients Undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery with Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis of Colorectal Cancer

(2015) Jeroen L. A. van Vugt et al.   ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Systematic review of sarcopenia in patients operated on for gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies

(2015) S. Levolger et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY

Relationship between sarcopenia, six-minute walk distance and health-related quality of life in liver transplant candidates

(2015) Anitha Yadav et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Liver transplantation arrests and reverses muscle wasting

(2015) Joseph T. Bergerson et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Sarcopenia in liver cirrhosis

(2015) Michela Giusto et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

Profile of plasma amino acids values as a predictor of sepsis in patients following living donor liver transplantation: Special reference to sarcopenia and postoperative early nutrition

(2015) Takeo Toshima et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Sarcopenia in the prognosis of cirrhosis: Going beyond the MELD score

(2015) Hee Yeon Kim   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Inclusion of Sarcopenia Within MELD (MELD-Sarcopenia) and the Prediction of Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis

(2015) Aldo J Montano-Loza et al.   Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Frailty Predicts Waitlist Mortality in Liver Transplant Candidates

(2014) J. C. Lai et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

Dorsal muscle group area and surgical outcomes in liver transplantation

(2014) Christopher S. Lee et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Muscle wasting

(2014) Aldo J. Montano-Loza   CURRENT OPINION IN CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLIC CARE

Phase II drugs that are currently in development for the treatment of cachexia

(2014) Anne-Marie C Dingemans et al.   EXPERT OPINION ON INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS

Post-liver transplantation sarcopenia in cirrhosis: A prospective evaluation

(2014) Cynthia Tsien et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

Sarcopenia Adversely Impacts Postoperative Complications Following Resection or Transplantation in Patients with Primary Liver Tumors

(2014) Vicente Valero et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY

Prognostic value of muscle atrophy in cirrhosis using psoas muscle thickness on computed tomography

(2014) François Durand et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Impact of quality as well as quantity of skeletal muscle on outcomes after liver transplantation

(2014) Yuhei Hamaguchi et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Severe muscle depletion predicts postoperative length of stay but is not associated with survival after liver transplantation

(2014) Aldo J. Montano-Loza et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Sarcopenia in Solid Organ Transplantation

(2014) Elizabeth J. Carey   NUTRITION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Morphometric Age and Mortality After Liver Transplant

(2014) Seth A. Waits et al.   JAMA Surgery

Sarcopenia as a Prognostic Index of Nutritional Status in Concurrent Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

(2013) Judith Meza-Junco et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY

Cancer Cachexia in the Age of Obesity: Skeletal Muscle Depletion Is a Powerful Prognostic Factor, Independent of Body Mass Index

(2013) Lisa Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Validation of the five-variable Model for End-stage Liver Disease (5vMELD) for prediction of mortality on the liver transplant waiting list

(2013) Robert P. Myers et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

Muscle mass predicts outcomes following liver transplantation

(2013) Andrea DiMartini et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Association between sarcopenia and the risk of serious infection among adults undergoing liver transplantation

(2013) Robert W. Krell et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Sarcopenia is a prognostic factor in living donor liver transplantation

(2013) Toshiro Masuda et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Revision of MELD to Include Serum Albumin Improves Prediction of Mortality on the Liver Transplant Waiting List

(2013) Robert P. Myers et al.   PLoS One

Objective Radiologic Assessment of Body Composition in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease

(2013) Ruy J. Cruz et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

Severe muscle depletion in patients on the liver transplant wait list: Its prevalence and independent prognostic value

(2012) Puneeta Tandon et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Quantifying the eyeball test: Sarcopenia, analytic morphomics, and liver transplantation

(2012) Michael J. Englesbe   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Muscle Wasting Is Associated With Mortality in Patients With Cirrhosis

(2011) Aldo J. Montano–Loza et al.   Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Definition and classification of cancer cachexia: an international consensus

(2011) Kenneth Fearon et al.   LANCET ONCOLOGY

Sarcopenia and Mortality after Liver Transplantation

(2010) Michael J. Englesbe et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

(2010) David Moher et al.   International Journal of Surgery

Nutritional status: its influence on the outcome of patients undergoing liver transplantation

(2009) Manuela Merli et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

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

(2008) Carla MM Prado et al.   LANCET ONCOLOGY

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

(2008) W. Ray Kim et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE