Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

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As a result of the experiment, the UPMC transplant team decided to reconsider Leland for a life-saving transplant. Surprisingly, Leland’s experience wasn’t the only recorded instance of the auto-brewery syndrome. When one 46-year-old man was pulled over for drunk driving, no one believed his insistence that he hadn’t had anything to drink...

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