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Sarcopenia is a prognostic factor for overall survival in patients with critical limb ischemia  Yutaka Matsubara, MD, Takuya Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Yukihiko.

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1 Sarcopenia is a prognostic factor for overall survival in patients with critical limb ischemia 
Yutaka Matsubara, MD, Takuya Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Yukihiko Aoyagi, MD, Shinichi Tanaka, MD, Jun Okadome, MD, Koichi Morisaki, MD, PhD, Ken Shirabe, MD, PhD, Yoshihiko Maehara, MD, PhD  Journal of Vascular Surgery  Volume 61, Issue 4, Pages (April 2015) DOI: /j.jvs Copyright © 2015 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Representative transverse computed tomography (CT) images are shown of (A) a patient without sarcopenia and (B) a patient with sarcopenia. The images were taken at the third lumbar vertebra. The white outline shows the calculated skeletal muscle area. Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2015 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 Kaplan-Meier curves show survival of patients with (dotted line) or without (solid line) sarcopenia (P = .001 by log-rank test). Journal of Vascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jvs ) Copyright © 2015 Society for Vascular Surgery Terms and Conditions


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