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Radiological Features for Frailty Assessment in Patients Requiring Emergency Laparotomy.

Katarzyna KołodziejskaJan WitowskiPiotr TylecAnna GrochowskaNatalia PrzytułaMaciej LisMichał PędziwiatrMateusz Rubinkiewicz
Published in: Journal of clinical medicine (2022)
Osteopenia was the best parameter for perioperative mortality risk stratification in patients undergoing emergency surgical intervention. Sarcopenia (measured as psoas muscle area), sarcopenic obesity, aortic calcifications and mean kidney volume do not predict poor outcomes in those patients. None of the radiological markers appeared to be useful for the prediction of perioperative morbidity.
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