The MELD score as a predictor of nontransplant surgical mortality in patients with cirrhosis

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-

  Perkins, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COUNSELING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INFORMED CONSENT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REOPERATION; SAFETY; STENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC VEINS; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STENTS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645104624     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20666     Document Type: Short Survey

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