Factors predicting mortality in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis visiting the emergency department.

[ 1 – 3 ] Although age standardized mortality rates for LC patients indicate a decreasing trend in many countries worldwide, the number of deaths continues to rise.

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By contrast, the prevalence of alcoholic LC has followed an increasing trend, consistent with the country’s high alcohol consumption rate, the highest in Asia.

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Unlike patients with LC with chronic viral hepatitis B, who showed a trend of improvement in the Child-Turcotte-Pugh score, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score and MELD score combined with the serum sodium concentration, patients with alcoholic LC showed deterioration of these scores, and those with decompensated LC even increased.

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