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CT determined psoas muscle area predicts mortality in women undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Martijn Stefan van MourikYvonne C JanmaatFloortje van KesterenJeroen VendrikR Nils PlankenMarieke J HenstraJuliëtte F VeluWieneke VlastraAeilko H ZwindermanKarel T KochRobbert J de WinterJoanna J WykrzykowskaJan J PiekJosé P S HenriquesVincent R LantingJan BaanCorine LatourRobert LindeboomM Marije Vis
Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2018)
Particularly in females, low iPMA is independently associated with an higher all-cause and cardiac mortality. Prospective studies should confirm whether PMA or other body composition parameters should be extracted automatically from CT-scans to include in clinical decision making and outcome prediction for TAVI.
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