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Close monitoring of patients’ overall status and interventions, such as prompt recognition of GI bleeding or SBP, is crucial to increase the likelihood of a patient surviving to benefit from OLT, the curative intervention for liver cirrhosis. Ameliorating some of the major causes of morbidity of cirrhosis, such as malnutrition, pruritus, and encephalopathy, improve the likelihood of a patient surviving until OLT.
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Saab, S., Han, SH., Martin, P. (2002). Management of the Patient Awaiting Liver Transplantation. In: Manzarbeitia, C. (eds) Practical Manual of Abdominal Organ Transplantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47627-4_3
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