Prospective Cohort Study of the Renal Outcome in Olt Patients- A Preliminary Observational Study

Abstract

BACKGROUND Postoperative Acute Renal Injury (ARI) is a serious clinical problem in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLT). There are currently no standard criteria for the evaluation of patients with AKI or Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) requiring Liver Transplantation (LT). The present study is taken up to fill up the lacunae. What is the use of MELD in predicting the outcome of OLT and renal function?. The aim of our study is to determine the association of various pretransplant risk factors, especially creatinine including the MELD score on patient renal function after OLT.