People on liver transplant waitlist may be no worse off if they have used marijuana

People on liver transplant waitlist may be no worse off if they have used marijuana
Last Updated: 2018-02-08
By Lorraine L. Janeczko

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Candidates on the liver transplant (LT) waitlist who have used marijuana have no worse outcomes than their counterparts on the list who have not used it, a single-center study suggests.

"Unlike illicit drug use, marijuana use was not associated with worse outcomes on the LT waitlist. . . We found a high prevalence of historical marijuana use that did not have clear adverse effects on LT waitlist outcomes," lead author Prashant Kotwani of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and colleagues write in Transplantation, online January 10.

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