ArticleSurgery today2024
Association of the psoas muscle index with the survival of patients on a waiting list for lung transplantation: a Japanese single-institution study.
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- Musculo-Immuno-Nutritional Score as a Prognostic Marker in Patients with Interstitial Pneumonia Awaiting Lung Transplantation.Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia · 2025Article
- No difference in the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications between abdominal laparoscopy and laparotomy for minimally invasive thoracoscopic esophagectomy: a retrospective cohort study using a nationwide Japanese database.Esophagus : official journal of the Japan Esophageal Society · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposesSome predictive markers of death have been reported for patients on the waiting list for lung transplantation (LTx). We assessed whether or not the preoperative psoas muscle index (PMI) correlates with waitlist mortality.
methodsIn 81 patients with end-stage lung disease on the waiting list for LTx between 2011 and 2020 at Osaka University Hospital, we examined the association between baseline characteristics, including the diagnosis, respiratory function test results, blood collection items, steroid use, and psoas muscle mass on computed tomography, and survival during the waiting period using Kaplan-Meier curves and Cox proportional hazard regression models.
resultsThirty-three patients (41%) died during follow-up. Univariate and multivariate analyses showed that patients with a low PMI had a higher rate of death during follow-up than those with a high PMI (p < 0.0001 and 0.0002, respectively). In addition, a diagnosis of interstitial pneumonia (hazard ratio 3.30, 95% confidence interval 1.52-7.17, p = 0.0025) and low albumin level (hazard ratio 2.21, 95% confidence interval 1.02-4.80, p = 0.0449) were also significant predictors of survival.
conclusionA low PMI at registration is associated with a decreased survival time among LTx candidates and it may be a predictive factor of mortality in patients waiting for LTx.
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