Liver Transplantation

Factors Predict Transplant Candidates At Risk For Alcoholic Recidivism

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, August 6th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Researchers at the University of Illinois have identified several psychosocial factors that can predict those most at risk for alcoholic recidivism among alcoholic cirrhosis patients hoping to become liver transplant candidates.

"We identified several predictive psychosocial factors of early alcholic recidivism in transplant candidates," J.F. Karman and colleagues, University of Illinois, said in Transplantation.

Karman and coworkers, in the Division of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Illinois (Chicago), developed the prediction factors after evaluating 99 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis...

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