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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease/Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Liver Transplantation.
Clinics in liver disease - 1 Feb 2018
Carter Danielle, Dieterich Douglas T, Chang Charissa
Abstract excerpt
The number of transplants caused by nonalcoholic fatty liver disease/nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) has been progressively increasing and this is expected to become the most common indication for liver transplant in the United States. Patients with NASH show many features of the metabolic syndrome and, as a result, are at higher risk for postoperative cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Despite this,...
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