Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) exception guidelines: Results and recommendations from the MELD exception study group and conference (MESSAGE) for the approval of patients who need liver transplantation with diseases not considered by the standard MELD formula

摘要: Richard B. Freeman Jr., Robert G. Gish, Ann Harper, Gary L. Davis, John Vierling, Leslie Lieblein, Goran Klintmalm, Jamie Blazek, Hunter, and Jeffrey Punch Division of Transplantation, Department Surgery, Tufts–New England Medical Center, Boston, MA; Departments Medicine Transplantation the Hepatology Complex GI, Physicians Foundation, California Pacific San Francisco, CA; United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA; Baylor Regional Transplant Institute, University Dallas, TX; Medicine, David Geffen School at UCLA, Los Angeles, Ochsner Multi-Organ New Orleans, LA; Michigan, Arbor, MI