Early liver transplant for alcohol-associated liver disease: Current state and future directions

Table 3  Mathurin et al[29] inclusion criteria for early liver transplantation in alcohol-associated hepatitis patients

	Severe alcohol-associated hepatitis is defined as follows
1	DF > 32
2	Non-response to medical therapy: Lille score > 0.45 after 7 days of medical treatment or continued increase in MELD score
3	Severe AH as the first liver-decompensating event
4	Presence of supportive family structure
5	Absence of psychiatric co-morbidities
6	Agreement by patients to lifelong total alcohol abstinence
7	Complete consensus for early LT by multidisciplinary team

LT: Liver transplantation; AH: Alcoho-associated hepatitis; DF: Maddrey's discriminant function; MELD: Model for End-Stage Liver Disease.