End-stage liver disease patients at lower risk for death in the short term still reaped the substantial benefits of a living-donor liver transplant (LDLT), a case-control study revealed. Compared with ...

If you’re an adult with liver disease that may call for a transplant, your MELD score helps to tell how quickly you might need it. A MELD score is a number that ranges from 6 to 40, based on lab tests ...

Since its proposal, the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score has been employed to predict short-term mortality among patients with chronic liver disease and those awaiting liver ...

During the 3-month follow up, 223 patients died. The causes of death were all related to liver disease: 49 patients died of hepatorenal syndrome; 117 patients died of hepatic encephlophy; 44 patients ...

Serum sodium is a simple, readily available, and objective marker of disease severity. During cirrhosis, hyponatremia results from solute-free water retention. Systemic arterial vasodilation leads to ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) survey of biliary tract cancer (BTC) to reveal the association between tumor somatic variants and chemotherapy resistance. Integrating insulin-like growth factor-1 ...