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Liver transplantation and mental retardation
H Van Vlierberghe1, I Colle, R Troisi
1Department of Gastroenterology and Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, 1K12 IE, De Pintelaan 185, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. hans.vanvlierberghe@rug.ac.be
Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica
|August 1, 2002
Abstract:
Mental retardation has been a controversial relative contraindication to organ transplantation. We present a case report of a 54 year old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and mental retardation who was sent for evaluation for liver transplantation. We discuss the ethical considerations of transplantation in the mental retarded patient.
Keywords:
Health Care and Public Health