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Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease

Transplantation, 2016
Alcohol-related liver disease is the second most frequent indication for liver transplantation (LT), yet as many as 90% to 95% of patients with alcohol-related end-stage liver disease are never formally evaluated for LT. Furthermore, despite its significance as a cause of chronic liver disease and indication for LT, it has received little attention in ...
Addolorato, Giovanni, Bataller, Ramón, BURRA, PATRIZIA, Dimartini, Andrea, Graziadei, Ivo, Lucey, Michael R., Mathurin, Philippe, Oʼgrady, John, Pageaux, Georges, Berenguer, Marina   +9 more
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Alcoholic Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2016
Excessive alcohol use is a common health care problem worldwide and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Alcoholic liver disease represents the second most frequent indication for liver transplantation in North America and Europe. The pretransplant evaluation of patients with alcoholic liver disease should aim at identifying those at
Juan F, Gallegos-Orozco, Michael R, Charlton   +1 more
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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1993
Alcoholism is a disease of remission and relapse. A lapse in abstinence tends to be viewed as a failure to commit to abstinence, and an acknowledged relapse may lead to the patient's removal from the liver transplant list; however, such a relapse may actually offer insight into alcoholism.
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Liver Fibrosis in Alcoholic Liver Disease

Seminars in Liver Disease, 2015
Excessive alcohol consumption causes a wide spectrum of liver disease, ranging from simple steatosis to severe forms of liver injury such as steatohepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. Moreover, alcohol consumption also accelerates liver fibrosis in patients with other types of liver diseases such as viral hepatitis and nonalcoholic ...
Ramon, Bataller, Bin, Gao
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Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Clinical Transplantation, 1996
AbstractOrthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) for individuals with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) remains controversial. This review was designed to evaluate the survival, recidivism, and rehabilitation of the alcoholic liver transplant recipient in a single transplant center. Methods: Between 10/86 and 11/92 203 liver transplants were performed in 179
G B, Zibari, D, Edwin, L, Wall, A, Diehl, J, Fair, J, Burdick, A, Klein   +6 more
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Autoantibodies in alcoholic liver disease

The American Journal of Medicine, 1990
To test the hypothesis that since only a proportion of heavy drinkers develop significant alcoholic liver disease (ALD), an autoimmune pathogenesis is likely.Autoimmune markers were measured in 47 patients with biopsy-proven ALD and compared to measurements in 20 alcoholics without clinical and hematologic evidence of ALD and 28 patients with ...
C A, Laskin, E, Vidins, L M, Blendis, C A, Soloninka   +3 more
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The Spectrum of Liver Disease in Alcoholism

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 1975
Summary: Liver biopsies obtained from 100 alcoholic patients attending a clinic primarily for the management of their alcoholism, have been reviewed. The morphological appearances have been correlated with histories of alcohol consumption and with clinical and biochemical findings.There were 77 men and 23 women.
P S, Bhathal, P, Wilkinson, S, Clifton, J G, Rankin, J N, Santamaria   +4 more
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Cytokines in Alcoholic Liver Disease

Seminars in Liver Disease, 1999
Cytokines are low-molecular-weight mediators of cellular communication produced by multiple cell types in the liver, with the Kupffer cell critically important. Inflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1, and interleukin-8, and hepatic acute-phase cytokines such as interleukin-6 play a role in modulating certain metabolic ...
C J, McClain, S, Barve, I, Deaciuc, M, Kugelmas, D, Hill   +4 more
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Liver Transplantation for Alcoholic Liver Disease

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2005
Patients with end-stage alcoholic liver disease should be considered for liver transplantation. A careful pretransplant evaluation must be undertaken to assess for both medical and psychiatric factors that will continue to require attention following transplantation.
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Alcohol and Alcoholic Liver Disease

Clinics in Liver Disease, 2019
Norman L, Sussman, Michael R, Lucey
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