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It's not all about the MELD Score
Transplants | Last Active: Nov 14, 2023 | Replies (217)Comment receiving replies
@mickj You were transplanted with a MELD of 14? That's amazing. What region was that in? From what I know, the MELD helps to determine how sick a person is and who is the greatest need of a transplant, which is why cancer in your liver increases your MELD. My daughter's husband's cousin was a developer of the MELD formula. I should have grilled him about it at my daughter's wedding in December 2017.
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@contentandwell Yep, MELD one week prior to transplant was 14. And I was only on the transplant list for 1 month. I'm in Phoenix. My blood type is A+ and I'm 6'1", neither of which are horribly unique. I guess I'm just extremely fortunate.
One interesting thing is that I have never had a liver biopsy. In hindsight, I've wondered if my body was healing enough to not need the transplant, but based on the fact that I had 8.5 liters of ascites fluid the day before transplant (1 week's worth) and the surgeon's note that my liver was "shrunken and cirrhotic", transplant was the right thing to do.