Alcoholic hepatitis and liver transplantation: Is an abstinence of six months necessary?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 114, 2012, Pages

  Testino, Gianni ^a   Borro, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Liver; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; ADULT; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TEMPERANCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860545578     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge11691     Document Type: Letter

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