What’s a Child-Turcotte-Pugh score and MELD score?

What’s a Child-Turcotte-Pugh score and MELD score?

A Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score, also known simply as the Child-Pugh score, is a clinical score that tells your doctors how severe your liver disease is and forecasts your expected survival rate. The scoring system provides a score on the presence of five clinical measures (the lab values of bilirubin, serum albumin and prothrombin time; presence of ascites and hepatic encephalopathy) and the degree of severity of each of these measures.

Child-Turcotte-Pugh ScoreClass StatusSeverity of Liver DiseaseTwo-Year Survival RateClass AMild85%Class BModerate60%Class CSevere35%

The Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score is a score that is used to rank the urgency for a liver transplant. The worse your liver function is, the higher your MELD score and the higher your position is on the transplant list. The Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease (PELD) score is similar to MELD but is a scoring system for children under the age of 12.