Change in Waiting List Registration, Liver Transplant for Alcoholic Hepatitis During COVID-19

JAMA Network Open

EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: 11 A.M. (ET), TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2021

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What The Study Did: Researchers report waiting list registrations and deceased donor liver transplants in the U.S. for alcoholic hepatitis, which can develop after a short period of alcohol misuse, increased during COVID-19, exceeding volumes forecasted by pre-COVID-19 trends, while trends for alcohol-related cirrhosis and non-alcohol-associated liver disease remained unchanged. The study cannot confirm causality but this disproportionate increase in association with increasing alcohol sales may indicate a relationship with known increases in alcohol misuse during COVID-19.

Authors: Jessica L. Mellinger, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is the corresponding author.

 

(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31132)

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