Cardiovascular Risk Assessment of Liver Transplantation Candidates
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Longitudinal assessment of mortality risk among candidates for liver transplantation.
Liver allocation policy recently was modified to use the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) for patients with chronic liver disease to stratify potential recipients according to risk for waitlist death. In this study, a retrospective cohort of 760 adult patients with chronic liver disease placed on the liver transplant waitlist between January 1995 and March 2001 and followed up for up to...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.08.058