Units: US SI

PELD Score (Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease) (younger than 12)

Age years old
Serum Bilirubin mg/dL
Albumin g/dL
INR
Does the patient have growth failure (see page 3 of linked PDF)? Yes
PELD Score

PELD Score = 10* (0.480 * ln(bilirubin) + 1.857 * ln(INR) - 0.687 * ln(albumin) + 0.436 (if pt < 1 year: scores for patients listed for liver transplantation before the patient's first birthday continue to include the value assigned for age (< 1 Year) until the patient reaches the age of 24 months) + 0.667 (if pt has growth failure of <-2 Standard deviation) )

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Scores