"Liver transplantation in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis improves survival, note Dr. Jerome Dumortier and colleagues at Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon. However, some investigators have suggested that alcohol recidivism might also have a substantial clinical impact."

"To investigate further, the researchers took a look back at 305 patients who had had liver transplantation at their institution because of alcoholic cirrhosis."

"Thirty-seven of the patients (12.1 percent) resumed drinking alcohol. At 1 year, 96.9 percent were alcohol free and at 10 years, 81.3 percent were still alcohol-free."

"The global survival rate was 92.6 percent at 1 year and 73.4 percent at 10 years. This, the investigators note, is similar to the 88.8
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