Half of Liver Transplants Last Year Resulted from Alcohol Use

“Where we used to see older patients, it has shifted to people in their late 20s and early 30s who have severe alcohol-use disorders and have developed liver disease severe enough to warrant transplant,” said James Burton, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and medical director of liver transplantation at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “Fifty percent of the transplants we did last year were on account of alcohol.”