Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease
โ Scribed by Georges-Philippe Pageaux; Pascal Perney; Dominique Larrey
- Book ID
- 111739591
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 149 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1355-6215
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Alcohol abuse is the most common cause of end-stage liver disease in the United States, but many transplant centers are unwilling to accept alcoholic patients because of their supposed potential for recidivism, poor compliance with the required immunosuppression regimen and resulting failure of the
With appropriate selection criteria, patients with end-stage alcoholic liver disease who undergo orthotopic liver transplantation have similar graft and patient survivals as patients undergoing transplantation for other causes. However, because of the possibility of recidivism after orthotopic liver