Defining a Liver Transplant Benefit Threshold for the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium Score.
CONCLUSIONS: Transition to MELD-Na did not define a more precise range at which patients benefited from transplant, and a similar percentage of patients was expected to derive benefit. Future revisions of donor liver allocation may allow better discrimination of expected transplant benefits among candidates currently assigned a high priority for donor livers.
PMID: 31050611 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Beal EW, Akateh C, Tumin D, Bagante F, Black SM, Washburn K, Azouley D, Pawlik TM Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research
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