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- * In a study of 323 liver cirrhosis patients, those with esophageal varices had significantly higher PALBI and CTP scores compared to those without, and the PALBI score showed better sensitivity for detecting varices.
- * The PALBI score is effective in predicting the presence of varices and assessing high-risk variceal hemorrhage, performing similarly to the CTP score but better than MELD-
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Introduction Research on non-invasive tools for detecting gastro-esophageal varices is underway. We investigated the Platelet-Albumin-Bilirubin (PALBI) score in comparison with the Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) and MELD-Na (MELD-Na) scores in patients with liver cirrhosis. Methods Three hundred and twenty-three patients with liver cirrhosis were studied. The PALBI, CTP and MELD-Na scores were calculated and analyzed for gastroesophageal varices and their characteristics using SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Results Two hundred and sixty-four patients had esophageal varices and 102 presented with variceal hemorrhage. Mean PALBI, CTP and MELD-Na scores were significantly higher for patients with varices versus without varices (p < 0.05). Unlike the mean MELD-Na score, the mean PALBI and CTP scores were significantly higher in patients with large high-risk varices as compared to patients with small low-risk varices (p < 0.05). The mean CTP scores were significantly higher in patients with variceal hemorrhage than those without hemorrhage (p < 0.05), while the difference between mean PALBI and MELD-Na was insignificant, in this regard. The PALBI score had better sensitivity than the CTP and MELD-Na scores in indicating the presence of varices but was similar to the CTP score in predicting high-risk varices. Conclusion The PALBI score proves to have good utility and efficiency in predicting varices in comparison to CTP and MELD-Na scores. It can determine high-risk stigmata of variceal hemorrhage with similar performance as the CTP Score.
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