with recent studies reporting that it underestimates mortality in children by 30% when compared with adults.[3] Consequently, nonstandard exception requests (NSERs) have been used to augment the calculated PELD score; they now account for more than 70% of total liver allocations to children.[4...
She was unable to go out in winter or take food from the freezer or even the refrigerator without wearing gloves. At diagnosis, her Hb was 9.4 g/dL, and she had acrocyanosis. Her serum LDH level was 375 U/L (converted into today's units), total bilirubin was 39 μmol/L, ...
Hyperbilirubinemia, which is rarely greater than 3 mg/dl but is associated with an increase in both direct and indirect bilirubin, is also common (55–70% of patients).9,42 Hyperbilirubinemia is multifactorial and results from a combination of hepatocellular dysfunction, with an obstruction ...
The average human has about 10 to 12 pints of blood circulating throughout the body at any given time, which is about 7 percent of your total body weight. Donors who weigh between 110 and 149 pounds (50 and 68 kilograms), for example, are allowed to donate a volume of 1.5 pints (...
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Standard biochemical determinations of International Normalized Ratio (INR), total bilirubin, alanine-aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate-aminotransferase (AST) were performed every day until discharge. Arterial lactate clearance was calculated according to Wu et al.28 In ALPPS patients glutamate ...
These OR’s were adjusted for DCD status, ALT, bilirubin and anti-HCV, the significant variables determined in our main modeling (Figure 2). Only the age group 60–70 is shown, but age group OR values in each region showed a peak in the 50–60 age group similar to our main model ...