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Modified pediatric end-stage liver disease scoring system and pediatric liver transplantation in Brazil by Joao Seda Neto; Eduardo Carone; Renata P. S. Pugliese; Eduardo A. Fonseca; Gilda Porta; Irene Miura; Vera B. Danesi; Teresa C. Guimaraes; Andre L. Godoy; Adriana Porta; Rodrigo Vincenzi; Francisco Carnevale Filho; Mario Kondo; Paulo Chapchap is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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The Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) scoring system is a formula developed to provide a continuous numerical assessment of the risk of death in order to allocate livers to children in need of transplantation. The PELD scoring system was introduced in Brazil in July 2006. An important change was made in the system: the final number for listing patients less than 12 years old for transplantation was the calculated PELD score multiplied by 3. The consequences of this allocation policy were analyzed in 2 ways in this research: nationally and in the state of Sa ̃o Paulo (SP State). In the analysis of the national data, a comparison of the pre-PELD era (July 2003 to July 2006) and the post-PELD era (August 2006 to April 2009) showed that the total number of pediatric transplants for children under 12 years of age decreased 7%. Regionally, in SP State, there was a 62% increase in the number of deceased donor liver transplantation procedures for the pediatric population after the introduction of the modified PELD system. There was also a 6.1-fold increase in split liver transplantation as well as a statistically significant decrease in the time on the waiting list (P < 0.001). In

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Author

Joao Seda Neto; Eduardo Carone; Renata P. S. Pugliese; Eduardo A. Fonseca; Gilda Porta; Irene Miura; Vera B. Danesi; Teresa C. Guimaraes; Andre L. Godoy; Adriana Porta; Rodrigo Vincenzi; Francisco Carnevale Filho; Mario Kondo; Paulo Chapchap

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)