Table 1.

Prognostic scoring of sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis in various studies

Score	Study	Interpretation
Sarcopenia	Kim et al. [5] (metanalysis)	Sarcopenia is a poor prognostic factor, independent of MELD and CTP scores
MELD-sarcopenia score	Montano-Loza et al. [11]	MELD-sarcopenia score, which combines MELD and psoas muscle area scores, is superior to that of the MELD score
MELD <15	Tandon et al. [4]	Impact of sarcopenia was significant in patients with low MELD scores <15
CTP A/B	Merli et al. [14]	Muscle loss was predictive of mortality in CTP class A and CTP class B patients but not in patients with CTP class C cirrhosis

MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; CTP, Child Pugh’s score.