Severe alcoholic hepatitis: Glucocorticoid saves lives and transplantation is promising.

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Severe alcoholic hepatitis: Glucocorticoid saves lives and transplantation is promising.

World J Gastroenterol. 2011 May 21;17(19):2454

Authors: Braillon A

Glucocorticosteroids have been used as the only treatment for a long time which significantly reduced the mortality of the patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis. The efficacy of transplantation has been recently addressed in a pilot study. The result seems promising but needs larger multicenter trials.

PMID: 21633648 [PubMed - in process]

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