Liver Transplantation

MELD Scoring System Not Predictive Of Mortality In Waiting Patients

Published in Blood Weekly, June 14th, 2001

A new report suggests the ability of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) to predict mortality in patients awaiting liver transplantation is wanting.

MELD has been shown to predict mortality in patients undergoing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt surgery and in those with cirrhosis who do not require a liver transplant.

To see if the model predicts mortality in patients awaiting liver transplants, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, followed 70 patients and used MELD to calculate risk scores.

MELD successfully separated patients into low- and high-risk groups; over 12 months,...

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