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Heavy drinking endangers the health of liver transplants

April 7th, 2016

The results strongly reinforce the need for early alcohol assessments after liver transplantation and multidisciplinary interventions to help patients maintain abstinence.

"As observed and described extensively for hepatitis C virus reinfection, liver graft damage occurs very rapidly after alcohol relapse, leading to cirrhosis in a significant proportion of patients, and therefore complications of cirrhosis and death," said Dr. Jerome Dumortier, senior author of the Liver Transplantation study.

More information:
Domitille Erard-Poinsot et al. Severe alcoholic relapse after liver transplantation: What consequences on the graft? A study based on liver biopsies analysis, Liver Transplantation (2016). DOI: 10.1002/lt.24425

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