特集「臓器移植前後のメンタルサポート：今日的課題」
アルコール性肝障害患者への肝移植の今日的問題
2019 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 17-22
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2019 年 54 巻 1 号 p. 17-22
Liver transplantation to alcoholic liver disease patients still holds problems such as conflict of psychiatrists who perform interviews with recipients, ethical issues and social dilemmas. Ironically, in spite of these unsolved problems, liver transplantation has been shown to be useful and medically established due to outcome of the treatment. Importance of the follow-up treatment of the organ recipients after transplantation is discussed more than validity of transplantation. We suggest that, for the liver transplantation recipients with alcoholic liver disease, much more attentive mental and physical care for the lifetime is necessary.
