Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Q: What is Lille score?


Answer: The Lille score is specifically designed to see if patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis are responding to glucocorticoid therapy. It looks into Day # 0
  •  age
  • renal insufficiency 
  •  albumin
  • prothrombin time
  • bilirubin 
and

Day # 7 bilirubin

In this model, survival probability at 6 months is defined by the 0.45-cutoff.

Calculator is available at http://www.lillemodel.com/lillept.asp

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