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FLF Patients Often Good Transplant Candidates

Published in Blood Weekly, February 5th, 1996

A distressing percentage of patients with fulminant hepatic failure who would benefit from liver transplantation are never identified as candidates for the procedure, according to a transplant specialist from Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic.

Researcher J. Rakela urged that greater efforts must be made to identify these patients.

Rakela made his comments at the VII International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis, held January 25-27, 1996 in Madrid, Spain. He was among several presenters discussing advances in liver transplantation among chronic hepatitis patients.

Rakela reviewed his experience at the University of Pittsburgh from...

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