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SUBMITTER: Alshuwaykh O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7917272 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alshuwaykh Omar O Kwong Allison A Goel Aparna A Cheung Amanda A Dhanasekaran Renumathy R Ahmed Aijaz A Daugherty Tami T Dronamraju Deepti D Kumari Radhika R Kim W Ray WR Kim W Ray WR Nguyen Mindie H MH Esquivel Carlos O CO Concepcion Waldo W Melcher Marc M Bonham Andy A Pham Thomas T Gallo Amy A Kwo Paul Yien PY
Hepatology communications 20201227 3
Liver transplantation (LT) is definitive treatment for end-stage liver disease. This study evaluated factors predicting successful evaluation in patients transferred for urgent inpatient LT evaluation. Eighty-two patients with cirrhosis were transferred for urgent LT evaluation from January 2016 to December 2018. Alcohol-associated liver disease was the common etiology of liver disease (42/82). Of these 82 patients, 35 (43%) were declined for LT, 27 (33%) were wait-listed for LT, 5 (6%) improved ...[more]