More patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis receiving liver transplants

(Digestive Disease Week) Increasingly, liver transplant centers are changing a long-standing practice of delaying potentially life-saving liver transplantation for patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis until after they stopped drinking alcohol for six months, according to a new study scheduled for presentation at Digestive Disease Week ® (DDW) 2018.
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