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https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/livertransplantation/93811Liver Transplants: 'Collateral Damage' of Pandemic Drinking— Rate of transplants for acute alcoholic hepatitis boomed, study findsby Zaina Hamza, Staff Writer, MedPage Today July 29, 2021The number of alcoholic hepatitis patients getting liver transplant more than tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic, a retrospective study found.A difference-in-difference analysis from June 2020 to February 2021 found that liver transplants for acute alcohol-associated hepatitis more than tripled (268.5% increase) compared with expected trends, while the rate of patients with acute alcohol-associated hepatitis added to the transplant waiting list more than quadrupled (325% increase), reported Therese Bittermann, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues....
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