Child-Pugh Score

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Child-Pugh Score

A scoring system used to assess the prognosis of chronic liver disease, mainly cirrhosis, to predict operative mortality, the need for titrate therapy and the need for liver transplantation

Child-Pugh score

Hepatology A scoring system used in Pts undergoing TIPS, which describes a range of severity of liver disease. See TIPS.

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