Role of MELD Score and Serum Creatinine as Prognostic Tools for the Development of Acute Kidney Injury after Liver Transplantation

BACKGROUND: The role of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in predicting complications, such as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has yet to be evaluated and serum creatinine may be too heavily weighted in the existing MELD formula, since it has...

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Autores principales: Romano, Thiago Gomes, Schmidtbauer, Ivana, Silva, Fernanda Maria de Queiroz, Pompilio, Carlos Eduardo, D'Albuquerque, Luiz Augusto Carneiro, Macedo, Etienne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064089

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23717537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064089

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