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

Something Strange

Leland was once again denied a spot on the waitlist and kicked to the curb. Soon afterward, in early 2019, a psychiatrist with the transplant center approached the medical director of the UPMC Clinical Toxicology Laboratory, Kenichi Tamama. She had noticed an anomaly in Leland’s lab results and wanted a second opinion…

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