Role of liver transplantation in severe alcoholic hepatitis

Severe alcoholic hepatitis has very high short term mortality and corticosteroids have been the mainstay of treatment for decades. Patients with Lille score >0.45 are considered non-responders to steroids and have poor outcome. Recently Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLT) is being increasingly...

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Main Authors: Ravi Daswani, Ashish Kumar, Praveen Sharma, Vikas Singla, Naresh Bansal, Anil Arora
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Association for the Study of the Liver 2018-03-01
Series:Clinical and Molecular Hepatology
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Online Access:http://e-cmh.org/upload/pdf/cmh-2017-0027.pdf