Letter: Comparing of scoring systems and outcome of patients admitted to a liver intensive care unit of a tertiary referral centre with severe variceal bleeding - Authors' reply

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Sir, We thank Payer et al. for their comments on our article describing the performance of MELD and organ failure (OF) scores to predict outcome in patients with cirrhosis and active variceal bleeding (VB). As they rightly point out, in patients with cirrhosis and OF, the number and severity of organs in failure are the better of predictors of outcome3; hence SOFA and APACHE are preferred over MELD in these cases.