Is MELD score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome?

There is a need to reassess the application of MELD and the impact of renal insufficiency with consideration for developing an algorithm with exception points that would lead to timely allocation of livers to patients with hepatorenal syndrome prior to occurrence of permanent renal damage without je...

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Autores principales: Sibulesky, Lena, Leca, Nicolae, Blosser, Christopher, Rahnemai-Azar, Amir A, Bhattacharya, Renuka, Reyes, Jorge
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2016
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Letters To The Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721921
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v8.i27.1155
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author Sibulesky, Lena
Leca, Nicolae
Blosser, Christopher
Rahnemai-Azar, Amir A
Bhattacharya, Renuka
Reyes, Jorge
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spelling pubmed-50373292016-10-10 Is MELD score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome? Sibulesky, Lena Leca, Nicolae Blosser, Christopher Rahnemai-Azar, Amir A Bhattacharya, Renuka Reyes, Jorge World J Hepatol Letters To The Editor There is a need to reassess the application of MELD and the impact of renal insufficiency with consideration for developing an algorithm with exception points that would lead to timely allocation of livers to patients with hepatorenal syndrome prior to occurrence of permanent renal damage without jeopardizing post-transplant survival. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2016-09-28 2016-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5037329/ /pubmed/27721921 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v8.i27.1155 Text en ©The Author(s) 2016. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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Rahnemai-Azar, Amir A
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Reyes, Jorge
Is MELD score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome?
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title_full Is MELD score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome?
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title_full_unstemmed Is MELD score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome?
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title_sort is meld score failing patients with liver disease and hepatorenal syndrome?
topic Letters To The Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721921
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v8.i27.1155
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