MELD Score

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The MELD Score can help predict mortality in patients with cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease. An online calculator is available.

In interpeting the MELD Score in hospitalized patients, the 3 month mortality is:[1]

  • 40 or more - 100% mortality
  • 30-39 - 83% mortality
  • 20-29 - 76% mortality
  • 10-19 - 27% mortality
  • <10 - 4% mortality

The MELD has also been studied in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kamath PS, Wiesner RH, Malinchoc M, et al (2001). "A model to predict survival in patients with end-stage liver disease". Hepatology 33 (2): 464–70. DOI:10.1053/jhep.2001.22172. PMID 11172350. Research Blogging.
  2. ↑ Malinchoc M, Kamath PS, Gordon FD, Peine CJ, Rank J, ter Borg PC (2000). "A model to predict poor survival in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts". Hepatology 31 (4): 864–71. DOI:10.1053/he.2000.5852. PMID 10733541. Research Blogging.

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