BACKGROUND We evaluated the concept of whether liver failure patients with a superimposed kidney injury receiving a simultaneous liver and kidney transplant (SLKT) have similar outcomes compared to patients with liver failure without a kidney injury receiving a liver transplantation (LT) alone. METHODS Using data from the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) database, patients were divided ...

To adopt the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score-based system in Korea, the feasibility should be evaluated by analysis of Korean database. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of the MELD score-based system compared with the current Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) based-system and to suggest adequate cut-off to stratify waiting list mortality among Korean population. W...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation is the usual treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma. AIM To analyze the MELD score, waiting time and three month and one year survival for liver transplantation in cirrhotic patients affected by hepatocellular carcinoma or not. METHODS This was a retrospective, observational and analytical study of 93 patients submitted to liver transplantation. RESULTS Th...

AIM To determine relationship between MELD score and the occurrence of SBP, prevalence of SBP, pattern of bacterial culture and antibiotic susceptibility of causative bacteria of liver cirrhotic patients at Sanglah Hospital. METHODS Study design was a cross-sectional analytic study. The population in this study consists of liver cirrhotic patients admitted at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar from Ju...

BACKGROUND The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) and Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) scores are important predictors for survival after liver transplantation (LT). The objective of this study was to compare the utility of MELD and CTP scores with Canadian waitlisting algorithm in transplantation (CanWAIT) status for predicting 90-day survival after LT. METHODS Retrospectively, we analyzed al...

We read with great interest the recently published article performed by Y›lmaz et al.(1) regarding the relationship between B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and progression of cirrhosis. The use of BNP in the evaluation of cirrhosis may be a more useful and easy-to-use predictor of the disease in comparison to previously described models such as the Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification and the Mo...

Required) This study intends to utilize Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) to support liver organ allocation policy making. The current liver organ allocation policy---the MELD scoring system suffers from several limitations in evaluating patients’ post-transplant survival. This study intends to develop a more cost effective policy for liver organ allocation which includes both recipients’ factors a...

In patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) offers hope for cure of both the complicating HCC and the underlying chronic liver disease. Excellent 5 year survival has been reported when the restrictive Milan criteria are used to select transplant candidates. Alternative recommendations have recently been proposed by groups at University o...

UNLABELLED  Background. Acute-on-chronic liver failure has high mortality. Currently, robust models for predicting the outcome of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated ACLF are lacking. AIM To assess and compare the performance of six prevalent models for short- and longterm prognosis in patients with HBV-ACLF. MATERIAL AND METHODS The model for end-stage liver disease (MELD), MELD sodium (MEL...

Background: Outcome after transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is highly variable. Aims: To identify factors affecting outcome after TACE forHCC. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of HCC patients treated with TACE from January 2001 to December 2010 at the VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida using Fisher’s exact test and Mann Whitney U testfo...