Women, people under 40 need increasing share of alcohol-related liver transplants in Colorado

Typically, a patient with liver failure from alcohol use is an older man with a long history of heavy drinking, but in recent years, more women and people under 40 are showing up in need of transplants, said James Burton, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who takes care of patients before and after liver transplants at UCHealth in Aurora, but doesn’t perform the surgeries.