Child-Pugh score


Child-Pugh score

assessment scale used in clinical staging of cirrhosis.
A scoring system used to assess the prognosis of chronic liver disease, mainly cirrhosis, to predict operative mortality, the need for titrate therapy and the need for liver transplantation

Child-Pugh score

Hepatology A scoring system used in Pts undergoing TIPS, which describes a range of severity of liver disease. See TIPS.