Sarcopenia in Chronic Liver Disease: Impact on Outcomes
- Malnutrition, sarcopenia and frailty are not the same but interrelated.
- Sarcopenia assessment methods and definitions vary.
- It is very common in cirrhosis and affects wait-list mortality a well as post-transplant mortality in cirrhosis.
- Frailty also affects the wait list and post-transplant mortality
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