McDiarmid et al developed the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) model to help evaluate children with end-stage liver disease. This can help identify patients for liver transplantation.
Parameters:
(1) age
(2) serum albumin in g/dL
(3) serum total bilirubin in mg/dL
(4) International Normalized Ratio (INR)
(5) height (and growth failure)
Parameter
Finding
Points
age in years
< 1 year of age
1
>= 1 year of age
0
growth failure
height > 2 standard deviations below mean for age (Z score < -2)
1
height <= 2 standard deviations below mean for age
