Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 300-307

  Lucey, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SMOKING CESSATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MORTALITY;

HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84900428663     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.247     Document Type: Review

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