Posts by Alyson Kaplan

In a very special installment of the Why Series, our adult and pediatric teams join forces to answer the question of how living donor liver transplantation came about in the United States. Read on!

In Part 1 of this series, we reviewed what came BEFORE the MELD score—Child-Turcotte-Pugh classification. We additionally discussed the history behind MELD, what is included in its calculation and why...

The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (or MELD) score is used to determine patient priority for liver transplantation. But have you ever wondered why? Let us review the history and the literature to...