Table 2.

MELD Exception Indication for LT.

Exceptions to MELD score
Manifestations of cirrhosis
•Refractory ascites
•Recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding
•Recurrent encephalopathy or chronic encephalopathy
•Hepatopulmonary syndrome
•Portopulmonary hypertension
•Intractable pruritus
Miscellaneous liver diseases
•Budd–Chiari syndrome
•Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy
•Cystic fibrosis
•Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
•Polycystic liver disease
•Primary oxaluria
•Recurrent cholangitis
•Uncommon metabolic disease
Malignancy
•Hilar and Intra-hepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA)
•Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
•Uncommon liver tumors

HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; LT, liver transplantation; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease.