Child-Pugh classification

The Child-Pugh classification system uses a combination of physical and laboratory findings to assess and define the severity of cirrhosis and is a predictor of patient survival, surgical outcome, and risk of variceal bleeding (Table 21-3). 

Albers I, Hartmann H, Bircher J, Creutzfeldt W (1989) Superiority of the Child-Pugh Classification to quantitative fiver function tests for assessing prognosis of liver cirrhosis. Scand J Gastroenterology 24 269-276... 

Table 4.5 Scoring for Child-Pugh classification of severity of liver disease...

Korner, T., Kropf, J., Kosche, B., Kristahl, H., Jaspersen, D., Gessner, A.M. Improvement of prognostic power of the Child-Pugh classification of liver cirrhosis by hyaluronan. X. Hepatol. 2003 39 947-953... 

Liver Disease — The oral Cl of LTG is 1/2 to 1/4 the Cl of inpatients with moderate to severe hepatic cirrhosis (Childs-Pugh classification of B or C, respectively) compared to healthy control subjects. 

Liver function scoring systems such as Okuda and Child-Pugh classification, together with assessment of the general performance status (i.e., Karnofsky score, ECOG scale Table 2.7.4), are essential to assess the patient s hepatic and general condition... 

Table 8.3. Meta-analysis of 13 studies/2140 patients treated by TACE. Survival figures related to tumor size and number, and Child-Pugh classification (Akashi et al. 1991 Alvarez et al. 2000 Hatanaka et al. 1995 Hsieh et al. 1992 Ikeda et al. 1991 Mondazzi et al. 1994 Poon et al. 2000 Savastano et al. 1999 Shijo et al. 1992 Takayasu et al. 2001 Yamamoto et al. 1992 Yamashita et al. 1991 Yoshioka et al. 1997)...

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