Mortality risk, behavior, and pediatric liver allocation

Review of Natural History, Benefits and Risk Factors Pediatric Liver Transplantation

Liver or hepatic transplantation (LT) is the replacement of a diseased liver with part or whole healthy liver from another person (allograft). Human liver transplants were first performed by Thomas Starzl in the United States and Roy Calne in Cambridge, England in 1963 and 1967, respectively. Liver transplantation is a viable treatment option for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure....

Performance of Pediatric Risk of Mortality, Pediatric Index of Mortality and PIM2 in term Chinese neonates.

Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM), Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) and PIM2 could be applicable to the subset of term neonates has not been well investigated. The purpose of this study is to access and compare the performance of these scoring systems in predicting mortality probability in term Chinese neonates with critical illness. PRISM, PIM and PIM2 scores were calculated prospectively ...

Pediatric Liver Transplant

The goals of post-transplant management are to manage and treat postoperative complications, and develop a balanced long-term immunotherapy regimen that minimizes infection and side effects but controls rejection. While modern immunosuppressant regimes have reduced rates of graft loss due to rejection, they impart major risks for infection, growth failure, metabolic complications, and malignanc...

Risk Allocation in Anti-Predator Behavior

Use of Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) and the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) III-24 for prediction of mortality.

To the Editor—I read with interest the article by Choi et al regarding the use of the Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) and the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) III-24 score for predicting mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Hong Kong. I agree with the authors that mortality prediction models are useful for audit purposes and allow comparison of disease severity and clin...