MELD-Lactate Predicts Poor Outcome in Variceal Bleeding in Cirrhosis.

Thomas HorvatitsNadim MahmudMarina SerperOliver SeizDominik ReherAndreas DrolzNaveed SarnastWenyi GuHans Peter ErasmusGabriel AlloPhillip FerstlSebastian WittmannFelix PiechaStefan GrothStefan ZeuzemChristoph SchrammSamuel HuberThomas RöschAnsgar W LohseJonel TrebickaGerald OgolaSumeet K AsraniJohannes Kluwe

Published in: Digestive diseases and sciences (2022)

MELD-LA significantly improves discrimination of short-term mortality associated with variceal bleeding, compared to MELD, peak-lactate and nadir hemoglobin. Thus, MELD-LA might represent a useful and objective marker for risk assessment and therapeutic intervention in patients with variceal bleeding.

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