A Child-Pugh score does not affect your spot on the transplant waiting list. Instead, it’s used to help doctors assess how severe your disease is and what treatments you should have. Doctors use another tool, the MELD score, to help doctors rank adults with liver failure on the liver tr...
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METHODOLOGY: A retrospective review of the medical records of seven patients with sclerosing HCC treated at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Taipei between Oct 1994 and Jan 2001. RESULTS: Seven patients with sclerosing HCC were identified, with ages ranging from 26 to 71 years (mean, 42.3 years). ...
Regarding cancers, there was a population-based cohort study which showed that patients with NAFLD have an increased risk of developing any cancer, such as colorectal, renal, bladder or uterine cancer; however, the main risk was HCC. It was proven in studies that the presence of NAFLD is ...