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. 2021 Jun 21;13(3):262-265.
doi: 10.1136/flgastro-2021-101916. eCollection 2022.

Twitter debate: controversies in liver transplantation

Oliver D Tavabie  1 , Ankur Srivastava  2 , Audrey Dillon  3 , Darius Mirza  4 , Steven Masson  5 , Philip J Smith  6
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Twitter debate: controversies in liver transplantation

Oliver D Tavabie et al. Frontline Gastroenterol. .
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Keywords: liver; liver transplantation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: OT is a Trainee Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and has received grants for educational content from Gilead and for consumables from NIHR BRC. PJS is an Associate Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology. There are no other competing interests to declare.

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Figure 1
#FGDebate poll on transplant assessing a patient with alcohol-related liver disease.
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Figure 2
Expert opinion from our discussion regarding whether cannabis or cigarette smoking should be seen as contraindications to transplantation.
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Figure 3
A map of UK liver transplant centres.
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