Patients with advanced liver disease due to alcoholism have the same
survival rate after a liver transplant as nonalcoholic patients do, a
University of Pittsburgh study re****ts.
About 6 percent of the 666 adult patients who received a liver
transplant in Pittsburgh between 1980 and mid-1987-41 patients in
all-
were alcoholics. Their one-year survival rate was 73 percent, which
is
not significantly different from that of the 625 other liver
transplant patients, the study found.
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