Alastair L Young, Rajasundurum Rajagenashan, Sonal Asthana, Christopher J Peters, Giles J Toogood, Mervyn H Davies, J Peter A Lodge, Stephen G Pollard, K Rajendra Prasad
As the result of the widening gap between supply and demand of organs for liver transplantation, efforts to improve allocation have become an increasingly important yet controversial subject. The MELD score has been adopted in the USA but its usefulness has rarely been examined in Europe. We carried out an intention to treat analysis of 422 patients placed on our transplant waiting list over a 5-year period. We examined multiple variables to investigate the value of MELD, sodium and other factors in predicting post-transplant outcomes...
April 2007: Transplant International