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Alcoholic Patients Do Well After Liver Transplant
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Patients with advanced liver disease due to alcoholism have the
same survival rate after a liver transplant as nonalcoholic patients
do, a University of Pittsburgh study reports.
About 6 percent of the 666 adult patients who received a liver
transplant in Pittsburgh between 1980 and mid-1987-41 patients in
all-were alcoholics. Their one-year survival rate was 73 percent,
which is not significantly different from that of the 625 other liver
transplant patients, the study found.
"To the extent that objections to liver transplantation {in
alcoholics} are moralistic," the researchers concluded, ...
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