MELD Score (Original, Pre-2016, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease)

Quantifies end-stage liver disease for transplant planning.

Instructions

Important: This is the pre-2016 MELD which does not include serum sodium level, as non-US transplant societies are still using the original MELD formula. The newer MELD-Na score is listed separately. Enter creatinine and bilirubin in µmol/L.

Dialysis at least twice in the past week *

Creatinine *

Total bilirubin *

INR *

Result

MELD Score (Original, Pre-2016, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease)

Step-by-step mode. Answer each question and result updates automatically.

Questions

1 Dialysis at least twice in the past week

2 Creatinine

3 Total bilirubin

4 INR

Step 1 of 4 25%

Dialysis at least twice in the past week *

Step 1 of 4

Creatinine *

Step 2 of 4

Total bilirubin *

Step 3 of 4

INR *

Step 4 of 4

Kamath PS, Wiesner RH, Malinchoc M, et al. A model to predict survival in patients with end-stage liver disease. Hepatology. 2001;33(2):464-470.
Wiesner RH, McDiarmid SV, Kamath PS, et al. MELD and PELD application of survival models to liver allocation. Liver Transpl. 2001;7(7):567-580.

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MELD Score (Original, Pre-2016, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease)

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MELD Score (Original, Pre-2016, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease)

Dialysis at least twice in the past week *

Creatinine *

Total bilirubin *

INR *

All questions complete

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