Liver Transplant Survivorship

Jennifer C. Lai, Nneka N. Ufere, John C. Bucuvalas – 6 May 2020 – For both children and adults with end‐stage liver disease, liver transplantation represents a lifelong treatment, not a cure. The physical and psychological process of undergoing transplantation begins well before the surgery itself. Concerns regarding suffering and death from end‐stage liver disease are replaced by a lifelong need for multiple medications, ongoing monitoring of graft function, and heightened vigilance for complications related not only to the transplant itself but to longterm immunosuppression.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Hangover: A Rising Tide of Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol‐Associated Liver Disease

Ben L. Da, Gene Y. Im, Thomas D. Schiano – 5 May 2020 – The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has had a tremendous global impact since it began in November of 2019. However, there are concerns that the COVID‐19 pandemic will not affect all equally and that some populations will be particularly vulnerable. Relevant to liver disease, patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and alcohol‐associated liver disease (ALD) may be among the populations that are the most severely impacted.

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