More patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis receiving liver transplants
Increasingly, liver transplant centers are changing a long-standing practice of delaying potentially life-saving liver transplantation for patients with severe alcoholic ...
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Paternal alcohol problems, death from liver disease, signal offspring risk for cirrhosis
While heavy drinking is known to lead to liver cirrhosis, not all heavy drinkers develop the disease. Variation in susceptibility ...
Alcohol places Hispanics at a much greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease
Alcoholic liver disease is a common liver ailment in the US that varies significantly by ethnicity. A new study looks ...
Liver transplant patients who receive organs from living donors more likely to survive than those who receive organs from deceased donors
Research derived from early national experience of liver transplantation has shown that deceased donor liver transplants offered recipients better survival ...
Device keeps human liver alive outside body
In a world first, a donated human liver has been 'kept alive' outside a human being and then successfully transplanted ...
Liver transplantation for patients with genetic liver conditions has high survival rate, study finds
Patients faced with the diagnosis of a life-threatening liver disease have to consider the seriousness of having a liver transplant, ...
Allowing people with HIV to be organ donors could save lives of HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure
If the U.S. Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after their death, roughly ...
New data emerges on liver transplant survival rates
Researchers compared the outcomes of cirrhotic patients who underwent liver transplants for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus alcoholic liver disease (ETOH) ...