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How do you decide between urgent early liver transplant listing versus a time-limited “watchful waiting” strategy in critically ill severe alcohol-associated hepatitis with some signs of potential hepatic recovery?

What specific clinical or trajectory-based triggers push you to list versus defer?
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Does your program pursue urgent listing and transplantation in cases of alcohol associated hepatitis?

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Hepatology · Mount Sinai Hospital
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Often, these decisions are very difficult to make and have to be individualized per patient. Of course, if a patient is responding biochemically to a course of corticosteroids, transplantation will be deferred (non-response or contraindication to steroids is usually a component of the evaluation of ...

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