Severe alcoholic hepatitis-current concepts, diagnosis and treatment options

Table 1 Components of clinical scoring systems to assess prognosis in alcoholic hepatitis

	Bilirubin	PT/INR	Cr/BUN	WBC	Age	Albumin	Potassium	Change in bilirubin from day 0 to day 7
MDF[10]	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-
MELD[6]	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-
GAHS[7]	+	+	+	+	+	-	-	-
ABIC[5]	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-
Lille[9]	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	+
MAGIC[8]	+	+	+	-	-	-	+	+

PT/INR: Prothrombin time/international normalized ratio; Cr/BUN: Creatinine/blood urea nitrogen; WBC: White blood cell; MDF: Maddrey’s discriminant function; MELD: Model for end-stage liver disease; GAHS: Glasgow alcoholic hepatitis score; ABIC: Age, serum bilirubin, INR, and serum creatinine; MAGIC: Model for alcoholic hepatitis to grade severity in an Asian patient cohort.