Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis: Are We Achieving Justice and Utility?

Abstract

Early liver transplantation (LT) is an emerging therapy for acute severe alcoholic hepatitis (AH)

in fact recent data show that alcoholic‐liver disease is the predominant driver of cirrhosis‐related mortality among US adults aged 25 to 34.(1) Because multiple small studies have demonstrated that "highly selected" AH patients have comparable one and three‐year survival to those with chronic liver disease (CLD) in receipt of LT

there is increasing momentum to waive the usual expectation of demonstrated alcohol abstinence prior to transplantation.

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