MELD: The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD, is a scoring - TopicsExpress



          

MELD: The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD, is a scoring system for assessing the severity of chronic liver disease. MELD was originally developed at the Mayo Clinic, and at that point was called the "Mayo End-stage Liver Disease" score. It was initially developed to predict death within three months of surgery in patients who had undergone a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure, and was subsequently found to be useful in determining prognosis and prioritizing for receipt of a liver transplant. This score is now used by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) andEurotransplant for prioritizing allocation of liver transplants instead of the older Child-Pugh score.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:25:08 +0000

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