Sonographic assessment of low muscle quantity identifies mortality risk during COVID-19: a prospective single-centre study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of muscle quantity by sonographic muscle indices could help identify patients at risk for fatal outcome during coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). The aim of this study was to explore sonographic muscle indices as predictors of COVID-19 outcome and to test the feasibility of sonographic muscle measurement in an isolation context.

Methods

Muscle indices, derived from the psoas muscle or thigh muscles, were quantified by sonography in a cohort of patients without COVID-19 to obtain reference values for low muscle quantity. Gender-specific median of different muscle indices were defined as threshold value for low muscle quantity. The prognostic relevance of low muscle quantity, was prospectively explored in two cohorts of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. O

SUBMITTER: Kremer WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8818698 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature