Sarcopenia: a new challenge in liver transplantation
10.3760/cma.j.cn115610-20210909-00449
- VernacularTitle:肌肉减少症：肝移植的新挑战
- Author:
Xiao XU
1
;
Hao CHEN
;
Di LU
;
Zuyuan LIN
Author Information
1. 浙江大学医学院附属杭州市第一人民医院肝胆胰外科 肿瘤融合研究与精准诊治实验室 310006
- Keywords:
End stage liver disease;
Liver transplantation;
Sarcopenia;
Liver cirrhosis;
Liver cancer;
Prognosis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery
2021;20(10):1025-1030
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Liver transplantation remains as the first choice treatment for patients with end stage liver diseases. Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disease characterized by loss of muscle mass and muscle function. As a common but easily overlooked complication, sarcopenia significantly influences the death and prognosis of recipients with cirrhosis and liver cancer waiting liver trans-plantation, which significantly influences the death and prognosis of those patients. Scientific evalua-tion and fine stratification of sarcopenia are expected to achieve precision intervention and improve prognosis of liver transplantation recipients.As sarcopenia is increasingly important in perioperative as well as medium and long-term management of liver transplantation recipients, it should be incorporated into normalized clinical diagnosis and treatment system. The authors review the research results at home and abroad, and comprehensively expound the research progress of sarcopenia in liver transplantation, in order to improve the cognition of sarcopenia in liver transplan-tation recipients in China.
