Preoperative myopenia and myosteatosis and their impact on postoperative complications in children with inflammatory bowel disease

Purpose To assess the severity of preoperative myopenia and myosteatosis in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and examine their impact on postoperative complications. Methods The subjects of this retrospective study were 30 pediatric patients with IBD (22 with ulcerative colit...

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Published in:Surgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Japan), 2023-04, Vol.53 (4), p.483-489
Main Authors: Inoue, Mikihiro, Uchida, Keiichi, Nagano, Yuka, Matsushita, Kohei, Koike, Yuhki, Okita, Yoshiki, Suzuki, Tatsuya, Toiyama, Yuji
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Child
Colitis, Ulcerative - complications
Colitis, Ulcerative - surgery
Crohn Disease - complications
Crohn Disease - surgery
Humans
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - complications
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original Article
Postoperative Complications - epidemiology
Postoperative Complications - etiology
Retrospective Studies
Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Surgical Wound Infection
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Summary:Purpose To assess the severity of preoperative myopenia and myosteatosis in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and examine their impact on postoperative complications. Methods The subjects of this retrospective study were 30 pediatric patients with IBD (22 with ulcerative colitis (UC) and 8 with Crohn’s disease (CD)) and 67 age-matched controls. Preoperative body mass index (BMI), psoas muscle index (PMI), and intramuscular adipose tissue content were compared between the patient groups, to investigate their association with postoperative complications. Results BMI and PMI were significantly lower in the IBD patients than in the controls ( p  
ISSN:0941-1291
1436-2813
DOI:10.1007/s00595-022-02596-3