Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors
Preoperative risk stratification in cancer surgery is important to improve treatment and outcome. Sarcopenia is defined by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength and is now getting attention as a poor prognostic factor. The purpose of this review was to explore the imp...
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| description | Preoperative risk stratification in cancer surgery is important to improve treatment and outcome. Sarcopenia is defined by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength and is now getting attention as a poor prognostic factor. The purpose of this review was to explore the impact of sarcopenia on short and long-term outcomes in patients undergoing surgical resection of gastrointestinal tumors. Recent studies suggest that sarcopenia contributes to postoperative complications and overall survival. The relatively simple evaluability, as well as its modifiable nature, provides an intriguing potential for sarcopenia to be included in standard preoperative clinical evaluation. Such evaluations can provide physicians with important information to target high-risk individuals with prophylactic measures and eventually improve surgical outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04684e10198241779c7cc4dd454808372023-11-21T11:35:40ZengMDPI AGGastrointestinal Disorders2624-56472021-03-0131516010.3390/gidisord3010006Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal TumorsAna Pereira0Joaquim Costa Pereira1Sandra F. Martins2Surgery Resident, Braga Hospital, 4710-243 Braga, PortugalColoproctology Unit, Surgery Department, Braga Hospital, 4710-243 Braga, PortugalColoproctology Unit, Surgery Department, Braga Hospital, 4710-243 Braga, PortugalPreoperative risk stratification in cancer surgery is important to improve treatment and outcome. Sarcopenia is defined by progressive and generalized loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength and is now getting attention as a poor prognostic factor. The purpose of this review was to explore the impact of sarcopenia on short and long-term outcomes in patients undergoing surgical resection of gastrointestinal tumors. Recent studies suggest that sarcopenia contributes to postoperative complications and overall survival. The relatively simple evaluability, as well as its modifiable nature, provides an intriguing potential for sarcopenia to be included in standard preoperative clinical evaluation. Such evaluations can provide physicians with important information to target high-risk individuals with prophylactic measures and eventually improve surgical outcomes.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-5647/3/1/6gastrointestinal tumorsmorbimortalitysarcopenia |
| spellingShingle | Ana Pereira Joaquim Costa Pereira Sandra F. Martins Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors Gastrointestinal Disorders gastrointestinal tumors morbimortality sarcopenia |
| title | Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors |
| title_full | Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors |
| title_fullStr | Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors |
| title_short | Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia on Gastrointestinal Tumors |
| title_sort | clinical impact of sarcopenia on gastrointestinal tumors |
| topic | gastrointestinal tumors morbimortality sarcopenia |
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