ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019
A High Visceral-To-Subcutaneous Fat Ratio is an Independent Predictor of Surgical Site Infection after Gastrectomy.
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- Risk factors for surgical site infection in patients with gastric cancer: A meta-analysis.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
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- Radiomic-based biomarkers: Transforming age and body composition metrics into personalized age-informed indices.Clinical and translational science · 2024Review
- Visceral to subcutaneous fat area ratio predicts early postoperative small bowel obstruction after total gastrectomy for cardia cancer.The Journal of international medical research · 2024Article
- Development and validation of a clinical diagnostic model for surgical site infection after surgery in patients with gastric cancer.Translational cancer research · 2024Article
- Body fat predicts urinary tract infection in kidney transplant recipients: a prospective cohort study.Journal of nephrology · 2024Article
- Visceral Adiposity Independently Predicts Time to Flare in Inflammatory Bowel Disease but Body Mass Index Does Not.Inflammatory bowel diseases · 2024Article
- High Subcutaneous Fat Area Is an Independent Risk Factor for Parastomal Hernia after Transperitoneal Colostomy for Colorectal Cancer.Journal of the anus, rectum and colon · 2024Article
- Visceral obesity determined in routine preoperative CT scans predicts risk of postoperative burst abdomen.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Sarcopenia and visceral fat in patients with incisional hernia after urgent laparotomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Article
- Comprehensive abdominal composition evaluation of rectal cancer patients with anastomotic leakage compared with body mass index-matched controls.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2022Article
- The impact of sarcopenia on short-term and long-term mortality in patients with septic shock.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Article
- Preoperative computed tomography-determined sarcopenia is a reliable prognostic factor in patients with gastric cancer after radical gastrectomy: A sex-specific analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Antimicrobial Dosing in Specific Populations and Novel Clinical Methodologies: Obesity.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2021Review
- Subcutaneous fat area as a risk factor for extraction site incisional hernia following gastrectomy for gastric cancer.Surgery today · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown that body composition is an important factor that affects surgical site infection (SSI). However, each study has utilized different body composition criteria. Therefore, in this study, we aim to determine the most predictable body composition criteria for the prediction of SSI after gastrectomy. The visceral fat area (VFA), subcutaneous fat area (SFA), and muscle area were assessed by a preoperative-stage computed tomographic (CT) scan. To compare the predictive performance of body composition for SSI, logistic regression models were used, and the models were compared using the receiver operation characteristic (ROC) curve and the area under the curve (AUC) value. Of the 1038 eligible patients, 58 patients (5.6%) developed SSI. The VFA-to-SFA ratio showed the best predictive performance (mean AUC 75.11). The cutoff value for the SSI of the VFA-to-SFA ratio was 0.94, and the sensitivity and specificity were 67.86% and 77.65%, respectively. A multivariate logistic analysis indicated that a total gastrectomy (OR, 2.13;
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