MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO IS THE FITTEST OF THEM ALL: A NOVEL PREDICTION MODEL FOR POSTOPERATIVE HEPATIC DECOMPENSATION IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS

Patients with cirrhosis carry an increased risk for mortality and morbidity after surgery (Ann Surg 2021;274:e345-54). Assessing the surgical risks for these patients has been a challenging issue for providers, given the complicated pathophysiology and lack of large prospective trials. Several models have been used to estimate post-surgical mortality for patients with cirrhosis, including the Model End-stage Liver Disease (MELD), Mayo Risk Score (MRS), and Child Turcotte Pugh (CTP) score. Recently, Mahmud et al.