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Editorial
. 2021 Mar;21(3):921-922.
doi: 10.1111/ajt.16243. Epub 2020 Aug 29.

Alcohol-associated hepatitis and liver transplantation: Mind the (racial, sex, economic, geographic, center, waitlist, and posttransplant outcomes) gap

Haripriya Maddur  1 , Sumeet K Asrani  2
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Editorial

Alcohol-associated hepatitis and liver transplantation: Mind the (racial, sex, economic, geographic, center, waitlist, and posttransplant outcomes) gap

Haripriya Maddur et al. Am J Transplant. 2021 Mar.
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Keywords: alcoholism and substance abuse; cirrhosis; editorial / personal viewpoint; liver transplantation / hepatology.

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