A model to predict survival in patients with end‐stage liver disease

By P. Kamath, R. Wiesner, M. Malinchoc, W. Kremers, Terry M. Therneau, Catherine L. Kosberg, G. D’Amico, E. Dickson, W. R. Kim. Hepatology, 2001

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Hepatology, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• EASL-EORTC clinical practice guidelines: management of hepatocellular carcinoma. (2012, methodology): “UNOS developed a priority system to manage waiting lists for transplantation based on the MELD score [218], which was originally generated to predict 3-month survival in patients with End-Stage Liver Disease [221].”
• Posthepatectomy liver failure: a definition and grading by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery (ISGLS). (2011, background): “hepatic function(68) and represent components of established liver function scores, such as the CTP (Child–Turcotte–Pugh) score and the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score.(69-72) Furthermore, the cut-off values for serum bilirubin concentration and INR (prothrombin time/index) have been ”
• Clinical Course of acute‐on‐chronic liver failure syndrome and effects on prognosis (2015, background): “Median delay between ACLF diagnosis and LT was 11 (1-28) days.”
• Evaluation for liver transplantation in adults: 2013 practice guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the American Society of Transplantation (2014, methodology): “The MELD score was initially devised to evaluate 3-month prognosis in patients with cirrhosis undergoing a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure.(16,17) It is a mathematical model that incorporates serum creatinine and bilirubin levels with the international normalized ratio”
• Liver fibrosis -- from bench to bedside. (2003, methodology): “[20] Kamath PS, Wiesner RH, Malinchoc M, Kremers W, Therneau TM,”
• The Survival Benefit of Liver Transplantation (2005, background): “The Board of Directors of the OPTN recently approved such a modification to the national allocation system for deceased donor livers in the United States (22).”