ArticleScientific reports2021
Thoracic skeletal muscle quantification using computed tomography and prognosis of elderly ICU patients.
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- Prevalence and mortality risk of low skeletal muscle mass in critically ill patients: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence and prognostic value of preexisting sarcopenia in patients with mechanical ventilation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Total Pectoral Muscle Area and Prognostic Nutritional Index Provide Complementary Prognostic Information for Patients Hospitalized with HFmrEF/HFrEF.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Thoracic muscle loss increases the use of mechanical ventilation in elderly patients with pulmonary embolism: constructing and validating a machine learning model on a two-center cohort.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Cluster analysis of thoracic muscle mass using artificial intelligence in severe pneumonia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Thigh muscle mass evaluated by point-of-care ultrasound is associated with short-term mortality in patients with sepsis in the emergency department.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Thoracic skeletal muscle mass predicts mortality in patients with surgery for pleural empyema: A case control study.Thoracic cancer · 2024Article
- Elderly Patients and Management in Intensive Care Units (ICU): Clinical Challenges.Clinical interventions in aging · 2023Review
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Abstract
In elderly ICU patients, the prevalence of skeletal muscle loss is high. Longitudinal effect of thoracic muscles, especially in elderly ICU patients, are unclear although skeletal muscle loss is related with the short- and long-term outcomes. This study aimed to evaluate whether pectoralis muscle mass loss could be a predictor of prognosis in elderly ICU patients. We retrospectively evaluated 190 elderly (age > 70 years) patients admitted to the ICU. We measured the cross-sectional area (CSA) of the pectoralis muscle (PM
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