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Utility of the Mayo End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in assessing prognosis of patients with alcoholic hepatitis

BACKGROUND: Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by acute, or acute-on-chronic hepatic failure and associated with a high mortality. Specific therapies should be considered for those at high risk of mortality. The Mayo End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is a marker of disease severity and mortalit...

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Autores principales: Sheth, Milan, Riggs, Mark, Patel, Tushar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC65516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11835693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-2-2