The current policy for determining priority for organ allocation is based on the model for end stage liver disease (MELD). We hypothesize that severity of graft dysfunction assessed by either the MELD score or the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score correlates with mortality after liver retransplantation (re-OLT). To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the outcome of 40 consecutive patients who recei...

The model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score is used to stratify candidates for liver transplantation based on objective measures of disease severity. MELD has been validated as a predictor of wait-list mortality in transplantation candidates and has been postulated as a predictor of post-transplant survival. The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive value of the pre-transpl...

The proportion of patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) with renal insufficiency has significantly increased in the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) era. This study was designed to determine the incidence and predictors of post-LT chronic renal failure (CRF) and its effect on patient survival in the MELD era. Outcomes of 221 adult LT recipients who had LT between February 2002 ...

Abstract Background Decompensated liver disease (DCLD) has high mortality, and its prediction is important to prognosticate prioritize patients for transplantation. MELD, MELD variants, CTP were widely tested mortality with few drawbacks. The aim of the study propose a new prognostic model DCLD which better than existing scores. Materials methods Retrospective 321 enrolled. Patient relatives te...

In the practice of medicine, multiple scores and prognostic systems have been developed to quantify disease severity, assess prognosis, and guide therapeutic interventions. The Glasgow Coma Scale, the Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD), and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification are but a few examples. Heterogeneity in the practice of intensive care medic...

Pairing heaps are shown to have constant amortized time Insert and Meld, thus showing that pairing heaps have the same amortized runtimes as Fibonacci heaps for all operations but Decrease-Key.

Background. Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is a distinct clinical entity in the spectrum of alcoholic liver disease with a high short-term mortality. Several scoring systems are being used to assess the severity of AH but the ability of these scores to predict long-term survival in these patients is largely unknown. Aims. We aim to assess the utility of five different scoring systems Child Pugh (CP),...

In the Claytronics project, we have used Meld, a logic programming language suitable for writing scalable and concise distributed programs for ensembles. Meld allows declarative code to be compiled into distributed code that can be executed in thousands of computing units. We are now using Meld to program more traditional algorithms that run on multicore machines. We made several modifications ...