Editor’s Note: The desperate shortage of donor livers available for transplant is forcing closer scrutiny of transplantation criteria.
The Model for Endstage Liver Disease (MELD) developed at the Mayo Clinic falls short of the mark, according to a presentation on Nov. 4 by James F. Trotter, MD, from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases in Boston, Massachusetts. In a study of 66 liver transplant recipients with a right lobe transplant from a living donor, preoperative MELD scores failed to predict which patients or grafts would survive for at least one year after surgery.
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