ArticleNutrients2023
Nutritional Ultrasonography, a Method to Evaluate Muscle Mass and Quality in Morphofunctional Assessment of Disease Related Malnutrition.
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- Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Muscular Ultrasonography for Assessing Inflammation and Muscle Mass in Patients at Risk of Malnutrition.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Association among measurements obtained using portable ultrasonography with sex, body mass index, and age in a large sample of adult population.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Ultrasound for body composition assessment: a narrative review.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Review
- Artificial intelligence-assisted rectus femoris ultrasound vs. L3 computed tomography for sarcopenia assessment in oncology patients: establishing diagnostic cut-offs for muscle mass and quality.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Developing a Deep Learning Approach for Automated Body Composition Prediction in Newborns Using Ultrasound Images.IEEE access : practical innovations, open solutions · 2025Article
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- Incorporating ultrasonography to the nutritional assessment process in intensive care settings to improve the prescription of enteral and parenteral nutrition: Benefits, practicality, and challenges.Saudi medical journal · 2024Review
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- Ultrasound Cut-Off Values for Rectus Femoris for Detecting Sarcopenia in Patients with Nutritional Risk.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Use of Muscle Ultrasonography in Morphofunctional Assessment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).Nutrients · 2024Observational
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Abstract
Nutritional ultrasonography is an emerging technique for measuring muscle mass and quality. The study aimed to evaluate the relationship between the parameters of body mass and quality of ultrasonography with other parameters of morphofunctional assessment in patients with disease-related malnutrition (DRM).
methodsA cross-sectional study was developed on 144 patients diagnosed with DRM according to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria. Morphofunctional evaluation was assessed with anthropometric variables, handgrip strength and bioelectrical impedanciometry (BIA). Nutritional ultrasonography of quadriceps rectus femoris (QRF) was made (muscle mass (Muscle Area of Rectus Femoris index (MARFI)), Y axis and muscle quality (X-Y index and echogenicity).
resultsThe mean age of patients was 61.4 (17.34) years. The prevalence of sarcopenia in the sample was 33.3%. Patients with sarcopenia (S) had lower values of MARFI [(S: 1.09 (0.39) cm
conclusionsIn patients with DRM and sarcopenia, standardized muscle mass and muscle quality parameters determined by ultrasonography of QRF are worse than in patients without sarcopenia. Muscle quality parameters had an inverse correlation with electric parameters from BIA and muscle strength. The highest quartile of the X-Y index determined by ultrasonography was associated with increased mortality risk.
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