Sarcopenia: a new challenge in liver transplantation / 中华消化外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Liver transplantation remains as the first choice treatment for patients with end stage liver diseases. Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disease characterized by loss of muscle mass and muscle function. As a common but easily overlooked complication, sarcopenia significantly influences the death and prognosis of recipients with cirrhosis and liver cancer waiting liver trans-plantation, which significantly influences the death and prognosis of those patients. Scientific evalua-tion and fine stratification of sarcopenia are expected to achieve precision intervention and improve prognosis of liver transplantation recipients.As sarcopenia is increasingly important in perioperative as well as medium and long-term management of liver transplantation recipients, it should be incorporated into normalized clinical diagnosis and treatment system. The authors review the research results at home and abroad, and comprehensively expound the research progress of sarcopenia in liver transplantation, in order to improve the cognition of sarcopenia in liver transplan-tation recipients in China.