Value of the SOFA score As a predictive model for short-term survival in high-risk liver transplant recipients with a pre-transplant labMELD score ≥30

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 717-726

  Schrem, Harald ^a   Reichert, Melanie ^a   Reichert, Benedikt ^a,b   Becker, Thomas ^c   Lehner, Frank ^a   Kleine, Moritz ^a   Bektas, Hüseyin ^a   Johanning, Kai ^a   Strassburg, Christian P ^a   Klempnauer, Jürgen ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM MINDEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Mortality; Predictive models; SOFA score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRIER SCORE; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSMER LEMESHOW TEST; HUMAN; LABMELD SCORE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SURVIVAL TIME; YOUDEN INDEX;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84863539826     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0881-9     Document Type: Article

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