Patients undergoing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Those who meet all of the following inclusion criteria 1. Consecutive patients who underwent PEG between March 2008 to April 2020 at the Jikei University Hospital (Tokyo, Japan) 2. 20 years of age or older
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Those who meet at least one of the following inclusion criteria 1. Patients with advanced cancer 2. Patients who underwent PEG for the purpose of decompression of the gastrointestinal tract 3. Patients in which the cross-sectional CT images at the third lumber vertebra level were not available 4. Patients with missing body height data 5. Patients who refused to participate by opting out
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Overall survival between low and high groups of skeletal muscle mass index at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3-SMI) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Overall survival between low and high groups of psoas muscle mass index at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3-PMI) 2) Overall survival between low and high groups of skeletal muscle radiation attenuation at the level of the third lumbar vertebra (L3-MRA) 3) Overall survival between low and high group of L3-SMI in the covariate-balancing propensity score-matched subgroup [Cut-off values] L3-SMI: female, 29.6 cm2/m; male, 36.2 cm2/ m2 L3-PMI: female, 3.92 cm2/m2; male, 6.36 cm2/ m2 L3-MRA: female, 39.3 cm2/m2; male, 44.4 cm2/m2 | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Endoscopy