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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on July 30, 2021, 03:21:42 PM
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https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/livertransplantation/93811 (https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/livertransplantation/93811)
Liver Transplants: 'Collateral Damage' of Pandemic Drinking
— Rate of transplants for acute alcoholic hepatitis boomed, study finds
by Zaina Hamza (https://www.medpagetoday.com/people/zh3109/zaina-hamza), Staff Writer, MedPage Today July 29, 2021
The 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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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2782532?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=072921
Research Letter Gastroenterology and Hepatology
July 29, 2021
Trends in Liver Transplantation for Acute Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US
Therese Bittermann, MD (https://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=Therese+Bittermann&q=Therese+Bittermann)1[/url]; (https://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=Nadim+Mahmud&q=Nadim+Mahmud)Nadim Mahmud, MD[/color]1[/url][/color]; (https://jamanetwork.com/searchresults?author=Peter+Abt&q=Peter+Abt)Peter Abt, MD[/color]1[/url][/font]
Author AffiliationsArticle Information
JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(7):e2118713. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.18713
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