释义 |
PELD score PELD score [Acronym for pediatric end-stage liver disease] A tool for characterizing the severity of liver disease in pediatric patients (under 12 ), used to determine their priority for receipt of donor organs. Patients with higher scores (more severe disease) are given a higher priority for transplantation. The score is based on repeated measurements of five variables: the patient's age, serum albumin level, serum bilirubin level, INR (international normalized ratio), and growth failure, entered into the following equation: PELD score = 0.436 (if patient is listed before age 1 year) — 0.687Ln(serum albumin) + 0.480LN(serum bilirubin) +1.857LN(INR) +0.667(for growth failure that is more than 2 standard deviations below normal). |