Waduud MA, et al. - In this prospective cohort study, researchers evaluated morphometric sarcopenia as a method of risk stratification in patients undergoing elective abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) intervention. They measured sarcopenia based on the total psoas muscle area (TPMA) on preintervention CT images of patients undergoing elective endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) or open aneurysm repair. They analyzed in total, 382 patient images acquired between March 2008 and December 2016. Findings revealed that morbidity and mortality could not be predicted via preintervention TPMA at all time points. This suggests irrelevancy of TPMA as a risk stratification tool for patients undergoing effective intervention for AAA.