D-MELD as a predictor of early graft mortality in adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation.

Ensuring a good match between donor and recipient is critically important to achieve acceptable graft outcomes after living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Our objective was to evaluate the product of donor age and Model for End-stage Liver Disease score (D-MELD) as a predictor of graft survival after LDLT.