Homare Okamura   Naoyuki Kimura   Keisuke Tanno   Makiko Mieno   Harunobu Matsumoto   Atsushi Yamaguchi   Hideo Adachi   
The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 157(3) 1071-1079 2019年3月
OBJECTIVE: Sarcopenia, age-related loss of muscle mass, is an objective and comprehensive marker of frailty. We aimed to clarify the influence of sarcopenia on the outcomes after heart valve surgery. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 1119 patie...