ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
Initial Temporal Muscle Thickness and Area: Poor Predictors of Neurological Outcome in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in a Central European Patient Cohort.
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- Assessment tools for patients with stroke-related sarcopenia: a scoping review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Association between temporalis muscle thickness and functional outcomes in acute stroke: A meta-analysis and GRADE approach.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Pooled it
- Value of temporal muscle thickness in predicting outcomes of stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Frailty Measures for Adult Patients and Outcomes for Vestibular Schwannoma Surgeries: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Neurosurgery practice · 2026Article
- Outcome predictors in older adults (≥ 65 years) with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.Neurosurgical review · 2026Article
- Predictive value of changes in temporal muscle volume for 6-month functional outcome in patients with hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Temporal muscle thickness is associated with clinical frailty in patients with severe acute brain injury.JAR life · 2026Article
- Temporal muscle thickness as a feasible sarcopenia marker and outcome predictor after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.Acta neurochirurgica · 2025Article
- Difference among frailty assessment tools in predicating postoperative prognosis of elderly patients with mild traumatic brain injury.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2025Article
- Frailty in Traumatic Brain Injury-The Significance of Temporal Muscle Thickness.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
The temporalis muscle area (TMA) has been proclaimed as a surrogate parameter for estimating skeletal muscle mass. Pilot studies in Asian populations suggested temporal muscle thickness (TMT) and TMA as prognostic factors for neurological outcomes in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) patients. This study aimed to validate these findings in a larger European patient cohort. We retrospectively analyzed age, sex, aneurysm location, treatment, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) grade, Fisher score, and modified Rankin Score (mRS) at six months in patients with aSAH. TMT and TMA measurements were obtained from initial native CT scans. Logistic regression with the dichotomized six-month mRS as the outcome incorporating TMT, weighted average of TMT, or TMA as predictors was performed. Of the included 478 patients, 66% were female, the mean age was 56, and 48% of patients had an mRS of three to six after six months. The mean TMT at the level of the Sylvian fissure was 5.9 (±1.7) mm in males and 4.8 (±1.8) mm in females. The mean TMA was 234.5 (±107.9) mm
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