Child-Pugh Score Calculator for Cirrhosis Mortality
Disclaimer: Diagnosis is usually made clinically. If the score from the calculator indicates that you might be at risk please consider visiting a doctor for further evaluation.
Cirrhosis is a liver disease. Healthy liver with normal functioning starts to gradually replace with scar tissues and regenerative nodules as result of disease of the liver. This comes as outcome of constant chronic hepatitis. The inflammation that comes from the hepatitis has many causes in your liver. Liver starts to fix up itself by scaring but this attempt has a side affect that prevents the liver from working in the right way. Also, this has a final stage that is a liver failure.
Symptoms
The main and most common cause of cirrhosis high use of alcohol, metabolic malfunction, constant chronic hepatitis C and also hepatitis B .Some early sing are loss of appetite, feeling tired and ill, having upper abdominal pain mostly on the right part. Symptoms that are on a higher stage of illness are :
- Weight loss
- Jaundice
- Pruritus
Light-colored or dark-colored urine - Skin and eyelids have a little yellow bumps
- Disordering or menstrual cycle
Child-Pugh Score is one of the ways to analyze the prognosis of chronic liver disease especially for cirrhosis. This way of analyzing firstly it was used for figuring out the prognosis , also the need for liver transplantation and the necessary required strength level of treatment. It serves as overview of liver health condition.
Child-Pugh score parameters
- Total bilirubin,
- Serum levels of albumin,
- INR (International Normalized Ratio),
- Ascites
- Encephalopathy
Based on this parameters to each of them is assigned score that varies from 1 to 3 points, their score ranges based on the level of severity of the anomaly. Score is calculated based on the five parameters added together and the Child-Pugh score is evaluated. Output of the score is evaluated in 3 stages that are Child–Pugh class A, B and C and for each of the the one-year and two year survival percentage.