A comparison of post-transplantation mortality of liver recipients with and without alcohol use disorder

Alcohol-related Liver Disease (ALD) represents almost half of all deaths attributable to liver disease (LD) in the US. Despite the large proportion of deaths from ALD, however, only 1.4% of all liver transplants were for patients with ALD. ALD presents a range of medical and ethical concerns for tho...

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Main Author: Herman, Grace E.
Other Authors: Garcia-Diaz, Fernando
Language:en_US
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/38670