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Liver Allocation for Rare Disease: Does the MELD Score Suffice?
Author(s) -
Pullen Lara C.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.16379
Subject(s) - medicine , food and drug administration , liver disease , disease , intensive care medicine , liver transplantation , kidney disease , drug , transplantation , environmental health , pharmacology
This month's installment of “The AJT Report” provides a discussion on how patients suffering from forms of cholangitis are faring within the current Model End‐Stage Liver Disease scoring system. We also report on an announcement from the US Food and Drug Administration regarding an important kidney loss prediction tool.