Role of MELD Score and Serum Creatinine as Prognostic Tools for the Development of Acute Kidney Injury after Liver Transplantation

The role of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in predicting complications, such as Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has yet to be evaluated and serum creatinine may be too heavily weighted in the existing MELD formula, since it has many pitfalls in cirrhotic patients.Retrospective data of the perioperative period from consecutive adult OLTs performed from January to December 2009 were...