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Revised King's College score for liver transplantation in adult patients with Wilson's disease.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Jan 2007
Petrasek Jan, Jirsa Milan, Sperl Jan, Kozak Libor, Taimr Pavel, Spicak Julius, Filip Karel, Trunecka Pavel
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Fulminant Wilson's disease (WD) is almost invariably fatal, and liver transplantation is the only life-saving treatment. Decompensated chronic WD usually responds to chelation therapy. Our aim was to validate 3 published scoring systems for deciding between chelation treatment and liver transplan...
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