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Livers from those with methanol intoxication acceptable for organ recipients

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 22nd, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Doctors in Spain have okayed the use of livers from people who die due to acute methanol intoxication for transplant recipients.

With the growing number of cases of end-stage liver disease caused by increasing rates of viral hepatitis, alcohol abuse, autoimmune illness, and other factors, there is a desperate need for transplantable donor livers. As a result, doctors have turned to alternative sources for donated livers that would have never been considered in earlier times. One of those sources is donors who die because of methanol intoxication.

Despite the fact that methanol invades a majority of the...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2002-07-22)

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