ArticlePrzeglad gastroenterologiczny2021
Body composition among patients undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer.
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- Skeletal Muscle Change During Neoadjuvant Therapy and Its Impact on Prognosis in Patients With Gastrointestinal Cancers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Pooled it
- Postoperative changes in body composition after laparoscopic and open resection of colorectal liver metastases: data from the randomized OSLO-COMET trial.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Trial
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- Low blood orexin concentration as a predictor of increased nutritional risk and all-cause mortality after surgery for colorectal cancer.Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2025Article
- Influence of body composition assessment with bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in cancer patients undergoing surgery.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionNutritional status assessment is an important part of preoperative patient evaluation, but the standard anthropometric parameters do not appear to be adequate.
aimTo determine the changes in the values of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) parameters in patients 3 months after undergoing surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC). MATERIAL AND
methodsBIA and nutritional status assessment parameters were determined in 80 patients prior to undergoing surgery for CRC. The results 3 months after surgery for 64 of those patients were then compared with their initial assessments.
resultsAccording to standard WHO ranges, 54% of the patients were diagnosed as being overweight and 29% as obese. The percentage of patients categorized as obese amounted to 56% when this was defined as high fat mass. Moderate sarcopaenia, defined as a low skeletal muscle index (SMI) or low percentage of skeletal muscle mass, was diagnosed in 21% and 29% of patients, respectively. Patients with postoperative weakness that made it impossible for them to attend the control visit had a lower preoperative skeletal muscle mass (
conclusionsA significant proportion of the patients undergoing surgery for CRC were overweight or obese, which could mask the sarcopaenia that presented in 21-29% of them. Sarcopaenia was the only parameter predictive of a postoperative decrease in performance status.
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