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What can cause a person to need a liver transplant?
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Many causes: Liver transplant is meant for replacing the liver which is damaged from one of many probable causes; it could be from excessive alcohol intake or disease processes on which you may not have control.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Liver failure: Liver transplantation is for irreversible liver failure, most frequently for cirrhosis (when the liver is scarred beyond regeneration) or for fulminant liver failure (example: Acetaminophen overdose).
Answered 6/24/2014
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