Influence of superimposed alcoholic hepatitis on the outcome of liver transplantation for end-stage alcoholic liver disease
✍ Scribed by Santiago Tomé; Carmen Martinez-Rey; Arturo González-Quintela; Francisco Gude; Antonio Brage; Esteban Otero; Ihab Abdulkader; Jerónimo Forteza; Manuel Bustamante; Evaristo Varo
- Book ID
- 118564628
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 106 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0168-8278
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T oday, there are nearly 12,000 patients per year dying of end-stage alcoholic liver disease (ALD); with only 4,000 hepatic donor organs available per year, it is clear that all patients with ALD cannot be saved by liver transplantation. 1 Which of these patients with ALD is selected for liver trans
Patients with clinical acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH) are not considered suitable candidates for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The histological correlates of AAH are often seen in the explanted liver at the time of transplantation. The importance of these findings remains inconclusive reg