Sarcopenia in Fontan patients: a sign of frailty-associated premature ageing?

Cardiol Young. 2021 May;31(5):696-698. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121001748. Epub 2021 May 6.

Authors

Erika Ouimet-Grennan¹, Carlos E Guerrero-Chalela², Judith Therrien², Liu Aihua², Liming Guo², Jonathan Afilalo^#³, Ariane Marelli^#²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
² McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
³ Division of Cardiology & Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

PMID: 33955351
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951121001748

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aging
Frailty* / complications
Frailty* / diagnosis
Humans
Sarcopenia* / diagnosis
Sarcopenia* / etiology