Abstract:BACKGROUNDChronic and excessive alcohol ingestion is one of the major causes of liver disease. The traditional disease specific prognostic model used for this purpose is the Maddrey Discriminant Function (DF). MELD score has been recently developed to predict mortality in patients with alcoholic hepatitis.This study aims at correlating MELD score, serum sodium, MELD NA score, serum albumin and Maddrey discriminant function in determining short-term prognosis in patients with alcoholic liver disease and its com… Show more
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