Model for end-stage liver disease exceptions: Proceed with caution
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Utility of Modeling End-Stage Liver Disease in Children with Chronic Liver Disease
Introduction: Chronic liver diseases consist of wide spectrum disorders that may be complicated by cirrhosis and therefore need to transplantation. The pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) score and model of end-stage liver disease (MELD) score has been used as predictors of mortality chronic liver diseases listed for liver transplantation. The aim of this study is evaluation of relation be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Liver Transplantation
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1527-6465
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22402