Liver transplantation and severe acute alcoholic hepatitis: an ethical consideration.

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Alcoholic Hepatitis and Liver Transplantation

Some authors affirm that early liver transplant (LT) provides excellent short-term survival in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis (SAH) (1–4) and similar rates of alcohol relapse compared to patients with 6 months of abstinence. We agree with the choice of not excluding patients who manifest their decompensation with bleeding and infections (common complications of SAH) and patients with psychiatric comorbidities. Data from the literature have stated for a long time that the approach to patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD) should be changed with no ethical or technical preconceptions. The reasons in favor of this change are as follows

Ethanol, flavonoid and prevention

Dear Editor,I have read the excellent paper by Ghanemi.1The Author affirms that natural active compounds such as flavonoids can be very helpful and have been described by some others as natural med..