Risk Factors for Alcohol Relapse Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review

Psychosomatics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-35

  Rustad, James K ^a   Stern, Theodore A ^b   Prabhakar, Maithri ^c   Musselman, Dominique ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACAMPROSATE; ALCOHOL; BACLOFEN; DISULFIRAM; GABAPENTIN; NALTREXONE;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BINGE DRINKING; COMORBIDITY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FAMILY HISTORY; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RECIDIVISM; RECURRENCE RISK; RELAPSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT REFUSAL; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR;

HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84921502600     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2014.09.006     Document Type: Review

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