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[Considerations on liver transplantation in the alcoholic patients]
O Detry1, N Meurisse1, A Lamproye2
1Service de Chirurgie Abdominale et Transplantation, CHU Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
In Belgium as in many other countries, alcohol is one of the leading causes of adult liver transplantation. Liver transplantation for terminal liver failure due to excessive alcohol intake raises clear ethical issues concerning the use of grafts to save patients suffering from a self-inflecting affection. Alcoholic liver disease is one of the best indications for liver transplantation, with excellent results in terms of length of survival and post transplantation quality of life, if this transplantation is proposed by a multidisciplinary team in a patient able to and helped by a supporting family and social environment.
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