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Many transplant centers require people with alcohol-related liver disease to remain sober for half a year, before becoming eligible for the waiting list for a liver. But this thinking may be changing.

For the fourth year in a row, a record-high amount of Iowans donated organs.

For the fourth year in a row, a record-high amount of Iowans donated organs.

For the fourth year in a row, a record-high amount of Iowans donated organs.

For the fourth year in a row, a record-high amount of Iowans donated organs.

For the fourth year in a row, a record-high amount of Iowans donated organs.

Even with a waitlist close to 100,000 individuals seeking a kidney transplant, approximately 20% of organs procured are discarded each year.Reducing that rate will require elimination of regulatory changes that punish transplant centers for taking risks on using marginal donors, a speaker said at the American Nephrology Nurses Association’s Nephrology Nursing Practice, Management &

The night before Brian Gorzney planned to check into rehab for alcohol use, he began vomiting blood. First at 2 a.m. Then 5. And again at 11.

Many hospitals require people with alcohol-related liver disease to complete a period of sobriety before they can be added to the waiting list for a liver. But this thinking may be changing.

Many transplant centers require people with alcohol-related liver disease to remain sober for half a year, before becoming eligible for the waiting list for a liver. But this thinking may be changing.