Model for End-stage Liver Disease
β Scribed by Singal, Ashwani K.; Kamath, Patrick S.
- Book ID
- 120467180
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 309 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0973-6883
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The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) was initially created to predict survival in patients with complications of portal hypertension undergoing elective placement of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts. The MELD which uses only objective variables was validated subsequently as an
With interest, we read the article by Xiol et al. 1 regarding differences in serum measurements between different laboratories and their influence on the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease incorporating serum sodium (MELD-Na). They reported significant
We thank Garritsen et al. 1 for their interest in our article about differences in Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium (MELD-Na) scores determined at 3 different laboratories. 2 We agree that one of the important messages of our article is the import