ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2019
Impact of Body Composition Status on 90-Day Mortality in Cancer Patients with Septic Shock: Sex Differences in the Skeletal Muscle Index.
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- Sarcopenia and Mortality Risk of Patients with Sepsis: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of clinical practice · 2022Pooled it
- Sarcopenia as a predictor of mortality among the critically ill in an intensive care unit: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Temporal Degradation of Skeletal Muscle Quality on CT as a Prognostic Marker in Septic Shock.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Beyond body mass index: exploring the role of visceral adipose tissue in intensive care unit outcomes.BJA open · 2025Review
- The impact of CT-based adipose tissue distribution and sarcopenia on treatment outcomes in patients with high-risk soft tissue sarcoma.BMC cancer · 2025Article
- Septic shock in the immunocompromised cancer patient: a narrative review.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
- Association Between Body Weight Changes and Subsequent Development of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Population-Based Nested Case-Control Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Article
- The impact of sarcopenia on short-term and long-term mortality in patients with septic shock.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2022Article
- The Impact of Myosteatosis Percentage on Short-Term Mortality in Patients with Septic Shock.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Assessment of Myosteatosis on Computed Tomography by Automatic Generation of a Muscle Quality Map Using a Web-Based Toolkit: Feasibility Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Abnormalities in body composition are associated with poor prognosis in cancer patients. We investigated the association between body composition and 90-day mortality in cancer patients who developed septic shock. We included consecutive septic shock patients with active cancer from 2010 to 2017. The muscle area at the level of the third lumbar vertebra was measured by computed tomography upon emergency department admission and adjusted by height squared, yielding the Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI). Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for 90-day mortality were estimated using a Cox proportional hazards model. Among 478 patients, the prevalence of muscle depletion was 87.7%. Among markers of body composition, the SMI only differed significantly between non-survivors and survivors (mean, 35.48 vs. 33.32 cm
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