Opportunistic Computed Tomography Imaging for the Assessment of Fatty Muscle Fraction Predicts Outcome in Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

Circulation. 2020 Jan 21;141(3):234-236. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.042927. Epub 2020 Jan 20.

Affiliations

¹ University Hospital Bonn, Department of Radiology (J.A.L, A.F., H.L.G., A.M.S., C.M., D.T.), Bonn, Germany.
² Department of Internal Medicine II (B.A.K., J.S., A.S., E.G., G.N., J.M.S.), Bonn, Germany.
³ Department of Medical Biometry, Informatics, and Epidemiology (R.F.), Bonn, Germany.
⁴ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (H.T.), Bonn, Germany.

PMID: 31958246
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.042927

No abstract available

Keywords: aortic stenosis; computed tomography; sarcopenia; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; treatment outcome.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / mortality
Aortic Valve Stenosis* / surgery
Aortic Valve* / diagnostic imaging
Aortic Valve* / surgery
Female
Humans
Male
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement*