D’Amico Clinical Stages of Cirrhosis

D'Amico staging (D'Amico 2006): the presence of varices, ascites, and variceal bleeding assigns a cirrhosis stage 1–4 with rising 1-year mortality.

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Varices present
Yes
Ascites present
No
Variceal bleeding
No

Result: D'Amico stage 2 (compensated) — 1-year mortality ~3.4%.

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What the result means

Stage 1-2
Compensated: no varices/ascites (~1%) or varices without bleeding (~3.4%).
Stage 3-4
Decompensated: ascites (~20%) or variceal bleeding (~57%). A natural-history staging, not a treatment order.

What you enter

  • Varices present
  • Ascites present
  • Variceal bleeding
How this is calculated

D’Amico G, Garcia-Tsao G, Pagliaro L. Natural history and prognostic indicators of survival in cirrhosis: a systematic review of 118 studies. J Hepatol. 2006;44(1):217-231. Read the source ↗

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