ArticleScientific reports2023
Reference values for low muscle mass and myosteatosis using tomographic muscle measurements in living kidney donors.
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- Defining Reference Values for Skeletal Muscle Metrics on Abdominal CT Using Data From Healthy Young Adult Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.AJR. American journal of roentgenology · 2025Pooled it
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- CT-based muscle mass cutoff values for Caucasians according to the European Working Group on Sarcopenia recommendations.European radiology · 2026Article
- Fully automated CT-based quantitative body composition analysis for predicting survival in patients with HCC undergoing TACE: a dual-cohort study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Association of Myosteatosis and of Graft Loss after Kidney Transplantation: An International Observational Study.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2026Article
- Long-Term Evolution of Skeletal Muscle Quantity and Quality After Curative-Intent Colon Cancer Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Age- and sex-specific reference values for CT-based low skeletal muscle quantity and quality in healthy living kidney donors.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- Relative muscle indices and healthy reference values for sarcopenia assessment using T10 through L5 computed tomography skeletal muscle area.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Analyzing body composition in living kidney donors: impact on post-transplant kidney function.Frontiers in nephrology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Low muscle mass and myosteatosis are associated with poor clinical outcomes. Computed tomography (CT) imaging is an objective method for muscle mass and quality assessment; however consensus on cut-off values is lacking. This study assessed age-, sex-, and body mass index (BMI)-specific reference values of skeletal muscle parameters and correlated muscle mass with 24-h urinary creatinine excretion (24-h UCE). In total, 960 healthy subjects were included in this study. Muscle mass and quality were determined using axial CT slices at the vertebral level L3. The muscle area was indexed for height (skeletal muscle index [SMI]). The mean age was 53 ± 11 years, and 50% were male. The SMI reference values for low muscle mass in males were 38.8 cm
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