First of all, we would like to thank the Brazilian Journal of Physical herapy for the opportunity to share such an interesting subject which is not widely known, in spite of the commendable assistance and interdisciplinary work ofered by many liver transplant centers.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the readers, and agree with their remarks. We take this opportunity to announce that we will soon submit an article to this Journal addressing all of the comments, including the Kaplan-Meier curve and showing the survival rateafter liver transplant.
Eliane Maria de Carvalho
Centro Universitário do Triângulo (UNITRI), Uberlândia (MG), Brazil
Maria Rita Montenegro Isern
Centro Universitário São Camilo, São Paulo (SP), Brazil
Poliana de Andrade Lima
Universidade Uni’Santana, São Paulo (SP), Brazil
Carla da Silva Machado
Universidade de São Paulo (USP-SP), São Paulo (SP), Brazil Ângelo Piva Biagini
UNITRI
Paulo Celso Bosco Massarollo
USP-SP
Muscle strength and mortality while on a liver
transplant waiting list (Authors’ response)
Força muscular e mortalidade na lista de espera
de transplante de fígado (Réplica dos autores)
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