Role of MELD Score and Serum Creatinine as Prognostic Tools for the Development of Acute Kidney Injury after Liver Transplantation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Romano, Thiago Gomes ^a,c   Schmidtbauer, Ivana ^b   Silva, Fernanda Maria de Queiroz ^b,c   Pompilio, Carlos Eduardo ^b   D'Albuquerque, Luiz Augusto Carneiro ^b   Macedo, Etienne ^b  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL SÍRIO LIBANÊS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ADULT; CREATININE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84878125041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064089     Document Type: Article

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