Liver transplantation in alcoholic patients

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1800-1802

  Testino, Gianni ^a,b   Leone, Silvia ^a,b   Sumberaz, Alessandro ^a,b   Borro, Paolo ^a,b  

^a Centro Alcologico Regionale Regione Liguria   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACUTE ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CRYPTOGENETIC CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIDIVISM; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; SURVIVAL; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; FEMALE; MALE; TRENDS;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLICS; ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS;

EID: 84901850729     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12242     Document Type: Article

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