Prediction of Mortality after Emergent Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement: Use of APACHE II, Child-Pugh and MELD Scores in Asian Patients with Refractory Variceal Hemorrhage

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to determine if existing methods of grading liver function that have been developed in non-Asian patients with cirrhosis can be used to predict mortality in Asian patients treated for refractory variceal hemorrhage by the use of the transjugular intrahepatic portos...

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Autores principales: Tzeng, Wen-Sheng, Wu, Reng-Hong, Lin, Ching-Yih, Chen, Jyh-Jou, Sheu, Ming-Juen, Koay, Lok-Beng, Lee, Chuan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Radiology 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19721833
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2009.10.5.481

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