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 ...

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 ...

Aim: To predict prognosis in patients with acute-on-chronic hepatitis (AOCH) using the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) scoring system and to study the effects of age, sex, etiology, low serum ...

The Child-Pugh score is a system for assessing the prognosis — including the required strength of treatment and necessity of liver transplant — of chronic liver disease, primarily cirrhosis. It ...

Liver transplant candidates may get a fairer shake from an artificial intelligence-based organ allocation system than that offered by the current Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring ...

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 ...

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 ...