Model for End-Stage Liver Disease Score Predicts Development of First Episode of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis in Patients With Cirrhosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether baseline model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score in patients with cirrhosis and ascites predicts the future development of first spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) episode.

Methods

A retrospective case-control study was performed at three academic centers to select patients admitted with first SBP episode (cases) and those with ascites admitted for decompensation without SBP (controls). Medical records from these centers were reviewed between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2013. Cases and controls were matched (1:2) for age, sex, and race. Conditional logistic recession models were built to determine whether baseline MELD score (within a month before hospitalization) predicts first SBP episode.

Results

Of 697 patients (308,

SUBMITTER: Khan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709904 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature