Reply: Ferritin and Liver Allocation? Impact on Mortality Not Only on the Waiting List But Also After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Should Be Considered

Ferritin and liver allocation? Impact on

Ferritin and liver allocation? Impact on mortality not only on the waiting list but also after orthotopic liver transplantation should be considered

✍ Tobias J. Weismüller; Michael P. Manns; Christian P. Strassburg 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 176 KB

We read with great interest the article by Azzalini et al., 1 who demonstrated that cigarette smoking worsens the severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in obese Zucker rats. In a related letter, Xu and coworkers 2 showed that cigarette smoking may act as a cofactor but not as an indep