In patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis who are not responding to medical therapy, it is
detrimental to postpone the decision to list a patient as there are no therapeutic alternatives.
Early transplantation of patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis, using a restrictive selection
process, has increasingly been used in the last decade with acceptable relapse rates.
Indeed, early transplantation has gained the support of a growing number of experts from
different countries, as shown by the European, American and Latin American …