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Descriptor English: End Stage Liver Disease
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad Hepática en Estado Terminal
Descriptor hepatopatía terminal
Entry term(s) enfermedad hepática terminal
Scope note: Estadio final de una enfermedad del hígado cuando la insuficiencia hepática es irreversible y requiere TRASPLANTE HEPÁTICO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença Hepática Terminal
Descriptor French: Maladie du foie en phase terminale
Entry term(s): Chronic Liver Failure
Chronic Liver Failures
Failure, Chronic Liver
Failures, Chronic Liver
Liver Failure, Chronic
Liver Failures, Chronic
Tree number(s): C06.552.308.500.177
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D058625
Scope note: Final stage of a liver disease when the liver failure is irreversible and LIVER TRANSPLANTATION is needed.
Annotation: For "Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD)" and related "Pediatric End Stage Liver Disease Model (PELD)" coordinate with SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX and probably LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Liver Diseases (1986-2010)
Liver Failure (1992-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
DeCS ID: 53958
Unique ID: D058625
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
End Stage Liver Disease - Preferred
Concept UI M0543760
Scope note Final stage of a liver disease when the liver failure is irreversible and LIVER TRANSPLANTATION is needed.
Preferred term End Stage Liver Disease
Chronic Liver Failure - Narrower
Concept UI M0543761
Preferred term Chronic Liver Failure
Entry term(s) Chronic Liver Failures
Failure, Chronic Liver
Failures, Chronic Liver
Liver Failure, Chronic
Liver Failures, Chronic



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