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

Signs of a Problem

Leland had been rejected by a different hospital’s transplant program. UMPC was her only hope, but they wouldn’t even add her to the waitlist. Instead, the transplant team referred her to an alcohol addiction treatment program. Leland was sober, but nobody seemed to believe her. Finally, they took another look at the lab results…

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