Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease: a Consideration of Reasons for and Against

Overview

Journal Alcohol Clin Exp Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 1989 Apr 1

PMID 2658652

Citations 3

Authors

D H Van Thiel

J S Gavaler

R E Tarter

V J Dindzans

R D Gordon

S Iwatsuki

L Makowka

S Todo

A Tzakis

T E Starzl

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Abstract

Orthotopic liver transplantation is a clinical procedure that has been accepted widely as the treatment of choice for individuals with advanced chronic liver disease. As such, its application to the important clinical problem of alcoholic liver disease is inevitable. The arguments for and against liver transplantation for individuals with advanced alcoholic liver disease are presented.

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