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@jrpally

Hi, I have a question, My father presents decompensated stage of liver disease. MELD 4 years ago was 15, and MELD now is 16. He had some ascities episodes well controlled and liver encephalopaty. What means that MELD did not changed from 4 years ago?

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Shawn Bishop | @shawnbishop | Jan 20, 2015

Rene,
MELD, or the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease is a reliable measure of mortality risk in patients with end-stage liver disease. It is used as a disease severity index to help prioritize allocation of organs for transplant. You can find more information about MELD here: http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/model-end-stage-liver-disease. And here is a MELD calculator: http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/model-end-stage-liver-disease/meld-model-unos-modification. As you will see, MELD is based on INR, bilirubin, creatinine, and whether a patient has had dialysis at least twice in the past week. So if those numbers haven’t changed much then the MELD score would remain the same.

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