Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery
Surgery remains the only potentially curative option for gastric cancer, although it is related to high postoperative morbidity and mortality rate. Approximately every second gastric cancer patient is diagnosed with sarcopenia, which is a significant risk factor for postoperative complications and p...
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| author | Martynas Lukšta Raminta Lukšaitė-Lukštė Augustinas Baušys Kęstutis Strupas |
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| description | Surgery remains the only potentially curative option for gastric cancer, although it is related to high postoperative morbidity and mortality rate. Approximately every second gastric cancer patient is diagnosed with sarcopenia, which is a significant risk factor for postoperative complications and poor long-term outcomes. However, sarcopenia is underestimated in routine clinical practice, since it remains the interest of clinical trials. Sarcopenia diagnostic criteria are not fully standardized, but it consists of tests for muscle strength, quantity and quality. They include grip strength, chair stand test, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, bioelectrical impedance analysis and densitometry tests. Regarding the growing evidence for sarcopenia impact on surgical gastric cancer treatment results, it is a high probability that sarcopenia assessment will come to routine clinical practice. Although, until then there is a need for further clinical trials to standardize the diagnostic and to find effective treatment strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68d02aeb3e494d29acce9c4c1cf261182022-12-21T19:06:12ZengVilnius University PressLietuvos Chirurgija1392-09951648-99422020-06-01191-210.15388/LietChirur.2020.19.20Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer SurgeryMartynas Lukšta0Raminta Lukšaitė-Lukštė1Augustinas Baušys2Kęstutis Strupas3Vilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, LithuaniaVilnius University, LithuaniaSurgery remains the only potentially curative option for gastric cancer, although it is related to high postoperative morbidity and mortality rate. Approximately every second gastric cancer patient is diagnosed with sarcopenia, which is a significant risk factor for postoperative complications and poor long-term outcomes. However, sarcopenia is underestimated in routine clinical practice, since it remains the interest of clinical trials. Sarcopenia diagnostic criteria are not fully standardized, but it consists of tests for muscle strength, quantity and quality. They include grip strength, chair stand test, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, bioelectrical impedance analysis and densitometry tests. Regarding the growing evidence for sarcopenia impact on surgical gastric cancer treatment results, it is a high probability that sarcopenia assessment will come to routine clinical practice. Although, until then there is a need for further clinical trials to standardize the diagnostic and to find effective treatment strategies.https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-chirurgija/article/view/18363sarcopeniasurgical oncologygastric cancer |
| spellingShingle | Martynas Lukšta Raminta Lukšaitė-Lukštė Augustinas Baušys Kęstutis Strupas Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery Lietuvos Chirurgija sarcopenia surgical oncology gastric cancer |
| title | Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery |
| title_full | Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery |
| title_fullStr | Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery |
| title_short | Underestimated Value of Sarcopenia in Gastric Cancer Surgery |
| title_sort | underestimated value of sarcopenia in gastric cancer surgery |
| topic | sarcopenia surgical oncology gastric cancer |
| url | https://www.journals.vu.lt/lietuvos-chirurgija/article/view/18363 |
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