NIDDK Central Repository - Development of a pediatric end-stage liver disease score to predict poor outcome in children awaiting liver transplantation.

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Publication Information

DOI

10.1097/00007890-200207270-00006

PubMed ID

12151728

Public Release Type

Journal

Publication Year

2002

Affiliation

University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; and EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, USA. smcdiarmid@mednet.ucla.edu.

Authors

Anand R, Lindblad AS, McDiarmid SV, Principal Investigators and Institutions of the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) Research Group

Studies

SPLIT

Citation

McDiarmid SV, Anand R, Lindblad AS, Principal Investigators and Institutions of the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) Research Group. Development of a pediatric end-stage liver disease score to predict poor outcome in children awaiting liver transplantation. Transplantation 2002 Jul 27;74(2):173-81.

Abstract

A pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) score for children with chronic liver disease using easily obtainable, objective, verifiable parameters, would be useful to prioritize children awaiting liver transplantation.