Re: Tim R. meld scores and transplant timing

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Lou,

Michigan is a bit better than the national average (in terms of

transplanting when MELD numbers are low)

Nationally 31% are transplanted when their MELD score is below 19, 47%

when it is 25+.

In MI the percentages are 49% <19, 21% 25+

Utah has done the best job of transplanting patients before they are

critically ill. Only 3% (one patient) had a MELD of 25+, 90% had MELD

scores below 19.

All this data came from

http://www.optn.org/latestData/advancedData.asp

It is based on the 2208 transplant that have been recorded into the

database since the inception of the use of MELD to allocate liver

transplants. Since it is based on such a small set of data (about 6

months) the statistical variation from the means that I have

calculated could be up to 5 percentage points - especially for states

with small numbers of transplants. The actual data is very interesting

and can be looked at in many different ways, subdividing for gender,

age, blood type, region, state, tx center, transplant year,

citizenship, ethnicity, donor relation, donor type (living or

deceased), and many others to get information about donors,

transplants and the waiting list.

Tim R

> Tim, do you have the statistics for Michigan - What percentage of

transplants are done when MELD scores are under 20, etc. Also, where

did you come up with these facts.

> Lou, mom of Josh, DX with strange form of PSC (or they belive

it will turn into PSC) along with overlapping symptoms of PBC