No, if there is someone on the list before the alcoholic.
Yes. The alcoholic's birthright includes the right to a liver, whilst the other does not have this.
If you disagree, you are a heretic and W and Jeebus will get you.
Doctors will take this into account when deciding recipients for a transplant. If there are two suitable patients - one who drinks and one who doesn't - then the mon-drinker is much more likely to get the new liver.
Of course they do! But I agree too that if drinker damaged his liver by way of alcohol, and there was a non-drinker, I believe , the non-drinker should get the transplant. Alcoholics have a disease. They can't just be casual drinkers. I applaud the ones that can go to Re-hab one time and live the rest of their life using the tools they learned on how to stay sober. I feel empathy for the ones that don't want it bad enough to quit. Alcohol is but a symptom, the real reason for drinking lies inside them.
In NYS they will not take a patient unless they have been alcohol free for 6 months, and they must submit proof of that through random testing etc. (This criteria is also used in the UK) So if they drank - they would have to wait another 6 months to get on the list for the transplant.
I believe the answer to that question is Yes! Everyone deserves to have a transplant if they need one. BUT .. should that person have the transplant? which is a totally different question and the answer is No, because the transplant would fail. So for health reasons, not moralistic ones, a transplant would not be given.
Nobody should be denied one. Some people think they should pay for them themselves. (They already have a strict criteria that has to be fulfilled before they are considered for a liver transplant.)
That asks for opinion about medical and psychological issues that we cannot answer. However, it is extremely difficult for alcoholics to get on transplant lists. An alcoholic who relapses after a transplant will often die, which would waste a liver that could have helped someone with better prospects.
I say Yes But, They would have to be serious about turning away the reckless life that they had been leading in the past....
Kidney transplants, followed by liver transplants, are most common.
Kidney transplants are most often carried out (which indicates that they are needed frequently). However persuading donors to donate their liver is particularly difficult, due to popular misconceptions about the person who may receive their liver (i.e alcoholics or drug users). Thus livers are 'needed' more often than kidneys are, since there's fewer livers to go around.
Reduced-size liver transplants are most often performed on children.
Liver and kidney
Heart, liver and kidney
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Not drinking alcohol!
There would be no alcoholics in the world.
Liver and kidney
The first human liver transplant was performed in 1963, and since then, thousands of liver transplants are done every year.
cornea and kidney. (and skin) Liver and kidney
Liver and kidneys.