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 reports.
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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