A s liver transplantation in the alcoholic patient has become more common, the outcome in these patients has become important information in grounding the ethical debate that still surrounds this charged topic. Controversy has existed since alcoholic patients began receiving organ transplants in the
Treatment of addictive behaviors in liver transplant patients
โ Scribed by Robert M. Weinrieb; Michael R. Lucey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.21340
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