Temporal Muscle and Stroke—A Narrative Review on Current Meaning and Clinical Applications of Temporal Muscle Thickness, Area, and Volume

Nutrients

Shin Kawamura¹  Akihito Koh¹  Toshiya Uchiyama²  Yukinari Kakizawa²  Akihiro Nishikawa²  Yasunaga Yamamoto²  Masahito Katsuki²  Masahiro Agata²  Naomichi Wada² 

[1] Department of Neurosurgery, Itoigawa General Hospital, Itoigawa 941-0006, Niigata, Japan;Department of Neurosurgery, Suwa Red Cross Hospital, Suwa 392-8510, Nagano, Japan;

关键词: frailty;    muscle volume;    nutritional status;    prognostic factor;    sarcopenia;    skeletal muscle mass;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu14030687

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Background: Evaluating muscle mass and function among stroke patients is important. However, evaluating muscle volume and function is not easy due to the disturbances of consciousness and paresis. Temporal muscle thickness (TMT) has been introduced as a novel surrogate marker for muscle mass, function, and nutritional status. We herein performed a narrative literature review on temporal muscle and stroke to understand the current meaning of TMT in clinical stroke practice. Methods: The search was performed in PubMed, last updated in October 2021. Reports on temporal muscle morphomics and stroke-related diseases or clinical entities were collected. Results: Four studies reported on TMT and subarachnoid hemorrhage, two studies on intracerebral hemorrhage, two studies on ischemic stroke, two studies on standard TMT values, and two studies on nutritional status. TMT was reported as a prognostic factor for several diseases, a surrogate marker for skeletal muscle mass, and an indicator of nutritional status. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography were used to measure TMT. Conclusions: TMT is gradually being used as a prognostic factor for stroke or a surrogate marker for skeletal muscle mass and nutritional status. The establishment of standard methods to measure TMT and large prospective studies to further investigate the relationship between TMT and diseases are needed.

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