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Handgrip strength adds more prognostic value to the MELD score than imaging-based measures of muscle mass in men awaiting liver transplantation

Marie Sinclair, Brooke Chapman, Rudolf Hoermann, Adam Testro, Thomas Scodellaro, Penelope Hey, Paul Gow

JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY | ELSEVIER | Published : 2019

DOI: 10.1016/S0618-8278(19)30183-5

Keywords

Science & Technology
Transplantation
32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Oral and Gastrointestinal
Digestive Diseases
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis
3202 Clinical Sciences
Liver Disease
Biomedical Imaging
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Organ Transplantation