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MELD or MELD-Na as a Predictive Model for Mortality Following Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement

Arunkumar Krishnan, Tinsay A. Woreta, Dhananjay Vaidya, Yisi Liu, James P. Hamilton, Kelvin Hong, Alia S. Dadabhai, Michelle Ma

Journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology · 2022 · 15 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Although MELD-Na is a superior prognostic tool to MELD for predicting overall mortality in cirrhotic patients, MELD tended to outperform MELD-Na to predict mortality after TIPS.

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