Open AccessDelta model for end-stage liver disease and delta clinical prognostic indicator as predictors of mortality in patients with viral acute liver failure
Author(s) -
Ashok Kumar Pannu,
Ashish Bhalla,
Chelapati Rao,
Charanpreet Singh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of critical illness and injury science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.274
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2231-5004
pISSN - 2229-5151
DOI - 10.4103/ijciis.ijciis_122_16
Subject(s) - medicine , liver failure , liver disease , delta , hepatitis delta , stage (stratigraphy) , prognostic model , disease , gastroenterology , oncology , overall survival , virology , virus , hepatitis b virus , paleontology , biology , engineering , aerospace engineering
The objective of the study is to compare the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) with clinical prognostic indicators (CPI) specifically the change in these parameters after 48 h of admission in predicting the mortality in patients with acute liver failure (ALF) due to acute viral hepatitis.