| Literature DB >> 17476086 |
Sue V McDiarmid1, Robert M Merion, Dawn M Dykstra, Ann M Harper.
Abstract
The Pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) score was developed as a measure of the severity of chronic liver disease that would predict mortality or children awaiting liver transplant. From multivariate analyses a model was derived that included five objective factors which together comprise the PELD score. The factors are growth failure, age less than 1 year, international normalized ratio (INR), serum albumin and total bilirubin.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17476086 DOI: 10.1007/s12098-007-0066-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Indian J Pediatr ISSN: 0019-5456 Impact factor: 5.319