Sarcopenia in Children With End‐Stage Liver Disease on the Transplant Waiting List

• Published in: Liver transplantation Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 641 - 651
• Main Authors: Woolfson, Jessica P., Perez, Manuela, Chavhan, Govind B., Johara, Fatema T., Lurz, Eberhard, Kamath, Binita M., Ng, Vicky L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Child; Child, Preschool; Children; Computed tomography; End Stage Liver Disease - complications; End Stage Liver Disease - surgery; Female; Growth curves; Humans; Liver diseases; Liver transplantation; Liver Transplantation - adverse effects; Male; Morbidity; Mortality; Nutritional status; Original; Pediatrics; Psoas muscle; Retrospective Studies; Sarcopenia; Sarcopenia - complications; Sarcopenia - diagnostic imaging; Sarcopenia - epidemiology; Transplants & implants; Waiting Lists

Sarcopenia predicts morbidity and mortality in adults with end‐stage liver disease (ESLD) and is determined by total psoas muscle area (tPMA) measurement from computed tomography (CT) imaging. Recently developed pediatric age‐ and sex‐specific tPMA growth curves provide the opportunity to ascertain...