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 ...

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 ...

Replacing serum creatinine with estimated glomerular filtration rate in a patient’s MELD-Na score appeared to improve waitlist mortality prediction among patients with cirrhosis in need of a liver ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Since the adoption of the most recent Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD 3.0) scoring system by the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) in July 2023, the ...

Since the adoption of a new model for assessing the severity of liver disease, women are more likely to be added to the waitlist for a liver transplant, more likely to receive a transplant, and less ...

Prognostic scores are valuable tools for predicting survival in patients with chronic liver disease. Recently, the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score has emerged as a potential prognostic indicator in ...