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 . WASHINGTON — Patient survival was no different for living donor liver transplant recipients with a MELD score ...

Since its proposal, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score has been employed to predict short-term mortality among patients with chronic liver disease and those awaiting liver ...

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 ...

ACLF, acute-on-chronic liver failure; APASL, Asian-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver; INR, international normalised ratio; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; TBiL, total bilirubin; ...

SAN DIEGO — Since the adoption of the most recent Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD 3.0) scoring system by the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in July 2023, the ...