Liver Transplant Offers Survival Benefits For Patients Of All Sizes

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Liver Transplant Offers Survival Benefits For Patients Of All Sizes - 05-12-2007, 06:30 AM

Patients with high BMIs experience a significant survival benefit from liver transplantation and had similar rates of mortality after transplant compared to patients with normal BMI. Therefore, obesity alone should not keep patients from being listed for transplantation, say the authors of a study in the December issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal by John Wiley & Sons. [click link for full article]

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