Trial reportNutrients2022
Predictive Value of Temporal Muscle Thickness for Sarcopenia after Acute Stroke in Older Patients.
Trial report in Nutrients, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06589297 (Prognostic Value for Predicting Functional Outcome Bioimpedancemetry and Temporal Muscle Measurement in Acute Stroke), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Prognostic Value for Predicting Functional Outcome Bioimpedancemetry and Temporal Muscle Measurement in Acute Stroke
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment tools for patients with stroke-related sarcopenia: a scoping review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Temporalis muscle biomarkers from routine brain MRI and risk of dementia in two independent cohorts.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Reduced Temporal Muscle Thickness Is Associated with Increased Postoperative Complications After Cranioplasty.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Association between lateral pterygoid muscle index as a predictor for sarcopenia and overall survival in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastasis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
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- Temporalis muscle thickness correlates with premorbid frailty in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest.Resuscitation · 2025Article
- Age- and sex-adjusted CT-based reference values for temporal muscle thickness, cross-sectional area and radiodensity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Predictive value of temporal muscle thickness in patients with chronic subdural hematoma.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Temporalis muscle thickness as a predictor of functional outcome after reperfusion therapies for acute ischemic stroke: a retrospective, cohort study.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Reduced temporal muscle thickness predicts shorter survival in patients undergoing chronic subdural haematoma drainage.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2024Article
- Temporal Muscle Swelling after Clipping Surgery with Frontotemporal Craniotomy Is Associated with Immediate Postcraniotomy Headache.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2024Article
- Association between the Thickness or Area of the Temporal Muscle and Skeletal Muscle Mass in Bioimpedance Analysis.Gerontology · 2024Article
- Temporal muscle thickness is not a prognostic predictor in patients with high-grade glioma, an experience at two centers in China.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2024Article
- Initial Temporal Muscle Thickness and Area: Poor Predictors of Neurological Outcome in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in a Central European Patient Cohort.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Association of Temporalis Muscle Mass with Early Cognitive Impairment in Older Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Rehabilitation Nutrition in Older People.Nutrients · 2023Article
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The assessment of sarcopenia is part of the nutritional assessment index and is essential in stroke management. This study aimed to identify and validate cutoff values of temporal muscle thickness (TMT) measured using computed tomography to identify sarcopenia after acute stroke. The participants were patients with stroke aged ≥65 years who were admitted to rehabilitation units. The recruited patients were randomly divided into the calculation and validation cohort. In the calculation cohort, TMT cutoff values for identifying sarcopenia were calculated using receiver operating characteristic analysis. The obtained values were validated in the validation cohort using sensitivity and specificity. The calculation cohort included 230 patients (125 men, mean age, 77.2 ± 7.2 years), whereas the validation cohort included 235 patients (125 men, mean age, 76.4 ± 6.95 years). The TMT cutoff values for identifying sarcopenia and low skeletal muscle index were the same: 3.83 mm for men and 2.78 mm for women. The TMT cutoff value for identifying sarcopenia showed a sensitivity and specificity of 0.642 and 0.750, respectively, for men, and 0.660 and 0.567, respectively, for women. We identified a valid cutoff value of temporal muscle thickness for identifying sarcopenia after acute stroke. TMT is easy to measure and may be useful for the early detection of sarcopenia.
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