2020
Response to “Reply to: ‘The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease’”
Godfrey EL, Malik TH, Lai JC, Mindikoglu AL, Galván NTN, Cotton RT, O'Mahony CA, Goss JA, Rana A. Response to “Reply to: ‘The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease’”. American Journal Of Transplantation 2020, 20: 903-904. PMID: 31943742, DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15783.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2019
The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease
Godfrey EL, Malik TH, Lai JC, Mindikoglu AL, Galván NTN, Cotton RT, O'Mahony CA, Goss JA, Rana A. The decreasing predictive power of MELD in an era of changing etiology of liver disease. American Journal Of Transplantation 2019, 19: 3299-3307. PMID: 31394020, DOI: 10.1111/ajt.15559.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMELD scoreLiver diseaseNon-alcoholic fatty liver diseaseHCV-positive patientsHCV-positive statusLab-MELD scoreAlcoholic liver diseaseFatty liver diseaseBest supportive therapyDe-identified dataLiver transplantLiver transplantationMELD eraFailure etiologyWaitlist deathsSupportive therapyUnited NetworkEtiology of diseaseOrgan SharingConcordance statisticDiseaseMortalityEtiologyMELDPatientsLiver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease An Update
Godfrey EL, Stribling R, Rana A. Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease An Update. Clinics In Liver Disease 2019, 23: 127-139. PMID: 30454827, DOI: 10.1016/j.cld.2018.09.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAftercareAlcohol AbstinenceAlcoholismEligibility DeterminationEnd Stage Liver DiseaseHumansLiver Diseases, AlcoholicLiver TransplantationMalnutritionPatient SelectionConceptsAlcoholic liver diseaseLiver diseaseAbstinence periodBetter long-term outcomesLiver disease burdenSevere alcoholic hepatitisOverall favorable outcomeLong-term outcomesAlcohol use treatmentUnique health concernsMinimum abstinence periodPosttransplantation riskAlcoholic hepatitisLiver transplantationMetabolic complicationsEarly transplantationDisease burdenFavorable outcomeBetter outcomesHealth concernUse treatmentTransplantationOutcomesDiseaseSelection criteria