Digital ILC 2020: European study reports that prioritizing patients for liver transplantation using MELD-Na could reduce 90-day waiting-list mortality compared with current practice 27 August 2020: ...
If you’re an adult with liver disease that may call for a transplant, your MELD score helps to tell how quickly you might need it. A MELD score is a number that ranges from 6 to 40, based on lab tests ...
Replacing serum creatinine with estimated glomerular filtration rate in a patient’s MELD-Na score appeared to improve waitlist mortality prediction among patients with cirrhosis in need of a liver ...
End-stage liver disease patients at lower risk for death in the short term still reaped the substantial benefits of a living-donor liver transplant (LDLT), a case-control study revealed. Compared with ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LONDON — Lower MELD score predicted short- and long-term survival in patients with severe alcohol-associated ...
The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score—derived from serum total bilirubin and creatinine levels, plus the international normalized ratio—is commonly used in the US to assess patients' ...
Prognostic scores are valuable tools for predicting survival in patients with chronic liver disease. Recently, the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score has emerged as a potential prognostic indicator in ...