Effect of surgery-induced acute muscle wasting on postoperative outcomes and quality of life

• Published in: The Journal of surgical research Vol. 218; pp. 58 - 66
• Main Authors: Huang, Dong-Dong, Ji, Yan-Bin, Zhou, Dong-Lei, Li, Bo, Wang, Su-Lin, Chen, Xiao-Lei, Yu, Zhen, Zhuang, Cheng-Le
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Muscle wasting; Muscular Atrophy - diagnostic imaging; Muscular Atrophy - epidemiology; Muscular Atrophy - etiology; Postoperative Complications - diagnostic imaging; Postoperative Complications - epidemiology; Postoperative Complications - etiology; Postoperative outcomes; Prospective Studies; Quality of Life; Risk Factors; Skeletal muscle; Stomach Neoplasms - surgery; Surgery; Young Adult; Gastrectomy; Muscle wasting; Gastric cancer; Skeletal muscle; Postoperative outcomes; Quality of life

Gastrectomy results in a significant loss of body composition in the long term, but the acute skeletal muscle wasting after gastrectomy has been rarely investigated. Moreover, the association between postoperative muscle wasting and quality of life (QOL) has never been reported. In the present study...