The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD, is a scoring system for assessing the severity of chronic liver disease. It was initially developed to...

classified into Child–Pugh class A to C, employing the added score from above. MELD Score MELD-Plus The surgeon and portal hypertension expert Charles Gardner...

applying this score to liver transplant eligibility. Thus, the MELD score was created. The Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score was later developed...

players score points by trick-taking and also by forming combinations of characters into melds. It is thus considered part of a "trick-and-meld" category...

21 cards. Meld A group of one to four cards with specific matching conditions. The points scored by a given meld depends on the type of meld formed, and...

MELD-Plus is a risk score to assess severity of chronic liver disease that was resulted from a collaboration between Massachusetts General Hospital and...

Look up meld in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meld or MELD may refer to: Molding (process), the process of manufacturing by shaping the material using...

prediction models such as the Maddrey's Discriminant Function and the MELD score. Severe cases may be treated with glucocorticoids with a response rate...

are not added to the initial meld requirement score. There is a special case where any player/team that manages to meld 7 canastas in one hand (natural...

special or difficult melds may also give extra points to a hand. A player may have a negative score if unmelded cards total more than melded ones. Usually play...

no meld is involved, the team declaring trumps must score at least 82 points to avoid “set”). "The mules" or two mundred or the four boys: A meld consisting...

transplantation. It was developed from the MELD score, incorporating the serum sodium level. The UKELD score is calculated from the patient's INR, serum...

extremely short survival. The severity of liver disease (as evidenced by the MELD score) has been shown to be a determinant of outcome. Some patients without...

End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score has also been found to have similar predictive accuracy in 30-day (MELD > 11) and 90-day (MELD > 21) mortality. Liver...

rack is the winner. Scoring is then carried out in the normal manner. If one person never had the required points to make a meld and the game is over...

is to score 500 points over several hands. The various melds and their scores are as shown in the table below: The non-royal marriages scoring 20 points...

Its score of 20 is recorded as if made before those for melds and tricks, even though it is not revealed until after melds have been declared. Meld (Wys...

considered an indication for liver transplantation. In the United States, the MELD score is used to prioritize people for transplantation. In a minority of people...

which may have notably different criteria for legal melds and winning hands, radically different scoring systems and even elaborate extra rules. A group of...

whose turn it is, has to meld a pair consisting of a King and Queen of the same suit. Unless this suit becomes trumps, this scores points as follows: Diamonds...

Bezique (/bəˈziːk/) or bésigue (French: [beziɡ]) is a 19th-century French melding and trick-taking card game for two players that came to Britain and is...

Riggs M, Patel T (2002). "Utility of the Mayo End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score in assessing prognosis of patients with alcoholic hepatitis". BMC Gastroenterology...

distinctive feature of 500 rum is that each player scores the value of the sets or cards they meld. It may be played by 2 to 8 players, but it is best...

of 70-96%. PCT, possibly together with CRP, is used to corroborate the MELD score. PCT at a cutoff value of .5 ng/mL was effective at ruling in septic arthritis...

players with cards in their hand that were not melded count negatively against their team's total score for the match. Every clean run is worth two hundred...

agreed-upon score, usually 100 points. The basic game strategy is to improve one's hand by melds and eliminating deadwood. Gin has two types of meld: Sets of...

criteria scoring different values. Some of these criteria may be subsets of other criteria (for example, having a meld of one dragon versus having a meld of...

early liver transplant. These include King's College Hospital criteria, MELD score, and Clichy criteria. To date, no universally accepted nomenclature has...

organise one's hand into sets or runs and to meld them by placing them on the table. The player who is first to meld all his or her cards, wins the game. Before...

having a meld of one dragon versus having a meld of all of them), and in these cases, only the criteria with the tighter requirements is scored. The points...