NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Oct 04 –
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles have developed a mathematical model for predicting postoperative survival of liver transplant patients.
The recently adopted criteria for organ allocation, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD), are biased toward urgency of need, not the efficiency of organ use, Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil and colleagues point out in Annals of Surgery for September. “The current era of severe organ shortage and mounting deaths on the waiting list argue for optimizing outcome by transplantation of nonurgent low-risk patients,” they maintain.
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