Study finds liver transplants tripled during pandemic

A caller survey published successful the JAMA Network recovered that liver transplants were rising owed to radical drinking heavy during the pandemic.

Researchers astatine the University of Michigan analyzed a nationalist waitlist for liver transplants and numbers of transplants from deceased donors that included implicit 50,000 connected waiting database registrations and implicit 30,000 donations from deceased donors betwixt January 2016 to January 2021.

They recovered that successful the U.S., those connected a waiting database oregon who received a liver transplant were 50% higher successful liver transplants for radical owed to alcoholic hepatitis.

Alcoholic hepatitis is caused erstwhile the liver stops processing alcohol.

This was based connected trends from earlier the pandemic.

From June 2020 to January 2021, researchers recovered that the fig of those connected the waiting database and deceased donors roseate to 60% based connected pre-pandemic trends.