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Transplantation for Alcoholic Hepatitis: Are We Achieving Justice and Utility?
- Source :
- Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.). 69(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Early liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis is a potentially life-saving treatment. As this practice becomes increasingly common, however, the liver transplant community is taking a fresh look at a familiar challenge: best stewardship of donor organs. Herein, we examine a few basic, necessary ethical and practical concerns relevant to this indication.
- Subjects :
- Hepatitis
medicine.medical_specialty
Hepatology
business.industry
Hepatitis, Alcoholic
medicine.medical_treatment
Patient Selection
MEDLINE
Alcoholic hepatitis
Liver transplantation
medicine.disease
Social justice
Liver Transplantation
Transplantation
Social Justice
Medicine
Humans
Justice (ethics)
Stewardship
business
Intensive care medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15273350
- Volume :
- 69
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....56cff909ea6e52ec117871ddc8c3fcb2