NHS: Alcoholic liver patients 'eligible for transplants'

Alcoholic liver patients 'eligible for transplants'

Transplanting livers in heavy drinkers has always been a controversial issue.

Continue reading the main stoStart QuoIn the past, debate has focused on the fact that alcohol-related liver disease is self-inflicted, and concerns that patients would not look after their new liver post-transplantation.

This has led the public and the medical profession to be wary of supporting transplantation in patients with alcoholism.