ArticlePostepy w kardiologii interwencyjnej = Advances in interventional cardiology2023
The association of body composition assessment with hospital length of stay in off-pump coronary artery bypass patients.
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Introduction: Bioelectrical impedance analysis is a widely available, non-invasive method for body composition assessment. Aim: To elucidate the perioperative body composition alterations and their prognostic utility for hospital length of stay (LOS) in low risk, off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) patients. Material and methods: Fifty patients undergoing elective OPCAB were included in the study. Body composition assessments were performed 1 day before the scheduled surgery and on the 6th postoperative day. Patients were grouped into < 9 days ( Results: No significant differences in anthropometric measurements, clinical characteristics or occurrence of postoperative complications were detected between the study groups. Patients with longer hospitalization had significantly higher content of fat mass (FM%) and fat mass index (FMI), and significantly lower content of fat free mass (FFM%) baseline parameters ( Conclusions: Preoperative high FM and low FFM content are independent predictors of prolonged hospital length of stay in normal- and increased-BMI patients after OPCAB.
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