Discussion
The major argument against widespread use of liver transplantation for patients with alcoholic cirrhosis has been the fear of a high rate of recidivism leading to loss of the graft. We have tried to emphasis ,on the one hand, the lack of medical arguments for removing alcoholics from liver transplant programmers and, on the other hand, the moral discrimination against alcoholics. Except for one initial report of poor survival after liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease,16 all recent studies have clearly shown that mortality after transplantation for alcoholic patients does not diver from that for non-alcoholic recipients