Thoracic sarcopenia measured by Hounsfield unit average calculation predicts morbidity and mortality in coronary artery bypass grafting

Krombholz-Reindl, Philipp
Winkler, Andreas
Vötsch, Andreas
Hitzl, Wolfgang
Schernthaner, Christiana
Hecht, Stefan
Seitelberger, Rainald
Gottardi, Roman

Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Research and Innovation Management (RIM), Team Biostatistics and Publication of Clinical Trial Studies/Machine Learning, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
Research Program Experimental Ophthalmology and Glaucoma Research, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Radiology, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Freiburg, Germany
Faculty of Medicine, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Corresponding author. Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Müllner Hauptstraße 48, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. Tel: +43-664-9205635; e-mail: [email protected] (P. Krombholz-Reindl).

Received April 16, 2024

Received in revised form July 26, 2024

Accepted August 07, 2024

Revised August 29, 2024

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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 66(2), August 2024. | DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezae303