Sarcopenia Is a Negative Prognostic Factor in Patients Undergoing Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) for Hepatic Malignancies.

Cancers (Basel) · 2019 · PMC6827165 · PMID 31597337

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( C ) Kaplan-Meier curve analysis shows a strong trend towards a reduced overall survival for sarcopenic patients with a pre-interventional PMI below 13.39 mm/m 2 .

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On the other hand, IL-6 serum levels did not significantly correlate with the PMI but only showed a weak trend towards a negative correlation ( Figure 2 B), meaning that sarcopenic patients tend to have higher levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6.

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