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What is The Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score is used for: and explain in detail?
The Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) score was originally developed to evaluate the risk of poocaval shunt procedures secondary to poal hypeension and subsequently has been shown to be useful in predicting surgical risks of other intra-abdominal operations performed on cirrhotic patients. Ref: Schwaz's principle of surgery 9th edition, chapter 31.