Second were digestive diseases, including alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

Yet in this country fewer than 10 percent of liver transplants are for alcoholic cirrhosis.

About a quarter of adults who receive liver transplants have alcoholic cirrhosis.

If so, the condition should be renamed "alcoholic cirrhosis".

One evening it was my job to try to drain excess fluid from the belly of a young woman with alcoholic cirrhosis.

Other risk factors include iron overload, alcoholic cirrhosis and some congenital disorders.

Alcoholic cirrhosis develops for between 10% and 20% of individuals who drink heavily for a decade or more.

Nevertheless, there are many unsolved problems in transplanting livers for alcoholic cirrhosis.

Studies have recently suggested that coffee consumption may protect against cirrhosis, especially alcoholic cirrhosis.

She attributed the hemorrhage to "alcoholic cirrhosis."

That group consists of chronically ill patients with diseases like hepatitis or alcoholic cirrhosis who are hospitalized.

Effects of ornithine alphaketoglutarate on blood insulin, glucagon and aminoacids in alcoholic cirrhosis.

Alcoholic cirrhosis caused by alcohol abuse is treated by abstaining from alcohol.

Alcoholic hepatitis can occur in patients with chronic alcoholic liver disease and alcoholic cirrhosis.

One is that some people who were diagnosed as having non-A, non-B hepatitis may have had another disease, like alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver.

Mr. Mantle's liver was also damaged by alcoholic cirrhosis and hepatitis C viral infection.

The concordance rate for alcoholic cirrhosis was 14.6% in monoxygotic twins and 5.4% in dizygotic twins.

They are most common in alcoholic hepatitis (prevalence of 65%) and alcoholic cirrhosis (prevalence of 51%).

Until the Pittsburgh study, a prevailing medical belief was that most liver transplants for alcoholic cirrhosis were futile gestures that wasted organs.

Compared with people who never drank coffee, those who drank one cup a day or less were about 30 percent less likely to develop alcoholic cirrhosis.

This suggested that COL1A2 might be a susceptibility locus for alcoholic cirrhosis with one, or very few, predisposing mutations possible.

But Mr. Mantle also had been an alcoholic for years and developed alcoholic cirrhosis, which greatly accelerates the course of the virus-initiated cancer.

Even though the diagnosis was not of alcoholic cirrhosis and Arafat was not known for consuming any alcohol, there was a likelihood of rumors.

By comparison, the incidence of coagulopathy in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis ranges between 40% and 91% and a higher proportion of these patients develop clinical problems.

There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death: alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis and Whipple's disease have all been proposed.