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Predictive power of MELD score in patients udergoing TIPS for refractory ascites

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2006

Abstract

MELD scoring system is a better tool to predict the risk of early mortality in patients with refractory ascites treated by TIPS than Child-Pugh classification. The discriminant power was low in both scores in one year horizon.