Transfusion requirements in living donor liver transplantation – Role of laboratory assessment and Model For End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score

Conclusion We have been able to identify those preoperative factors which can be employed to predict the consumption of various blood components in living donor liver graft recipients. These variables were further employed to construct prediction models, separately for each blood component. We also identified those preoperative variables which significantly influence the in hospital mortality and PLOS in LDLT recipients.
Source: Apollo Medicine - Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research