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Article: Reports on renal insufficiency findings from Z.Z. Feng and co-researchers provide new insights.(Report)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 19, 2009
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According to a study from the United States, "Because the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) system for liver allocation gives priority to patients with a higher creatinine, and because pre-transplant renal function is one determinant of post-transplant renal function, this study compares the burden of renal insufficiency in the pre-MELD and MELD eras. Two hundred and elven patients, at our institution, transplanted in the pre-MELD era, were compared to 143 in the MELD era."
"The GFR (mL/min/1.73 m2) was significantly higher in the MELD cohort than the pre-MELD cohort at time of transplant, discharge, and 12 months post-transplant (95.5 vs. 85.3, p = 0.039; ...