Easy surveillance of muscle volume decline in chronic liver disease patients using finger-circle (yubi-wakka ) test

Impact of muscle volume and muscle function decline in patients undergoing surgical resection for hepatocellular carcinoma

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Impact of myosteatosis on skeletal muscle volume loss in patients with chronic liver disease

(2018) Yoshihiko Tachi et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY

Efficacy of branched-chain amino acid supplementation and walking exercise for preventing sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis

(2017) Atsushi Hiraoka et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

“Yubi-wakka” (finger-ring) test: A practical self-screening method for sarcopenia, and a predictor of disability and mortality among Japanese community-dwelling older adults

(2017) Tomoki Tanaka et al.   Geriatrics & Gerontology International

Muscle volume loss a prognostic factor for death in liver cirrhosis patients and special relationship to portal hypertension

(2017) Atsushi Hiraoka et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Ethical guidelines for publishing in the journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle: update 2017

(2017) Stephan von Haehling et al.   Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle

Sarcopenia and two types of presarcopenia in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease

(2016) Atsushi Hiraoka et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY

Muscle volume loss as a prognostic marker in hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with sorafenib

(2016) Atsushi Hiraoka et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Japan Society of Hepatology guidelines for sarcopenia in liver disease (1st edition): Recommendation from the working group for creation of sarcopenia assessment criteria

(2016) Hiroki Nishikawa et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Sarcopenia is a poor prognostic factor following hepatic resection in patients aged 70 years and older with hepatocellular carcinoma

(2016) Norifumi Harimoto et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Skeletal muscle mass assessed by computed tomography correlates to muscle strength and physical performance at a liver-related hospital experience

(2015) Shinji Itoh et al.   HEPATOLOGY RESEARCH

Sarcopenia, but not visceral fat amount, is a risk factor of postoperative complications after major hepatectomy

(2015) Takaaki Higashi et al.   International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Muscle atrophy as pre-sarcopenia in Japanese patients with chronic liver disease: computed tomography is useful for evaluation

(2015) Atsushi Hiraoka et al.   JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Sarcopenia in Asia: Consensus Report of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia

(2014) Liang-Kung Chen et al.   Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Sarcopenia is a prognostic factor in living donor liver transplantation

(2013) Toshiro Masuda et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Investigation of the freely available easy-to-use software ‘EZR’ for medical statistics

(2012) Y Kanda   BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Nutritional status in relation to lifestyle in patients with compensated viral cirrhosis

(2012) Fumikazu Hayashi   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis: Report of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People

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