title: Trekking new ground: overcoming medical and social impediments for extended criteria liver transplant recipients.
abstract: 1. There is an increasing recognition that previously marginal candidates for liver transplantation can receive therapies that allow transplant to take place. 2. Coronary artery disease is an increasing co-morbidity in liver transplant candidates. 3. Physio-social issues require written guidelines and patient advocates. 4. Methadone maintenance therapy per se is not a contra-indication to liver transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Australian National Liver Transplant Unit, A. W. Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Center, Centenary Research Institute, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia. g.mccaughan@centenary.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: Geoffrey W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: McCaughan
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D000075202:Contraindications; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000592:standards*; D008691:Methadone; D058850:Opiate Substitution Treatment; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D018579:Patient Selection; D014180:Transplantation / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D008691:Methadone