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Husbands alcoholic cirrhosis is class b pugh child class. does his survival rate change since he drinks a pint a day and wont stop?
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Hopeless: If he continues drinking, it will kill him just as certainly as if he refused to leave a burning house.
Answered 1/1/2016
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