483 ETIOLOGY, OUTCOME AND APPLICABILITY OF KING'S COLLEGE PROGNOSTIC CRITERIA IN HYPERACUTE, FULMINANT AND SUBACUTE HEPATIC FAILURE IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS IN INDIA

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Early indicators of prognosis in fulminant hepatic failure: An assessment of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and King's College Hospital Criteria

✍ Radha K. Dhiman; Sanjay Jain; Uma Maheshwari; Ashish Bhalla; Navneet Sharma; Jas 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 193 KB 👁 1 views

While King's Hospital Criteria (KCH) criteria are used worldwide, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) is a more recently developed scoring system that has been validated as an independent predictor of patient survival in conditions for liver transplantation (LT). The aim of the present stud